The David Knight Show - Fri Episode #2309: Freedom Dies When Good Men Stay Silent

Episode Date: July 17, 2026

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in a world of deceit. Telling the truth is a revolutionary act. It's the David Knight Show. As the clock strikes 13, it's Friday the 17th of July, your of our Lord, 26. Well, we see the problems mounting, don't we? We see a long train of abuse in so many different areas. What do we do about it?

Well, we have a couple of guests today. We have Eric Peters, who is no stranger to this broadcast, and he's going to be joining us to talk about some of the latest surveillance tricks that the government has up its sleeve. We're also going to talk a little bit about what's necessary to push back against this. And we have another guest that is new to this program, Bradley Dean of Sons of Liberty, and we have him live in studio. That's something we've never done before. And he's also going to be talking about what the appropriate response is to this. Not just to watch it, not just to take it.

I think you're going to enjoy these two interviews. Stay with us. will be right back. Well, joining me in studio now is Bradley Dean of Sons of Liberty. And this is a first force. We've never had a guest in here except for Travis, usually doing it solo. But Bradley and I have been having a great time talking about people. We know things that, places we've been and people that we've had experience with. And I heard that you, I didn't talk to you about this, but Karen was telling me that you met Matt Trovella of Defytyrants.com. And I love his book. I've had him on many times. Okay. Yeah. Actually, being met

friends. I preached it at church several times. And yeah, he's another one of those, you know, diamonds in the rough. He really is willing to stand up and say what needs to be said in these times. Yes, he absolutely is. And I had a wonderful Christian testimony when he came. It really brought me to tears. It was amazing. Yep. And I hear that every time I talk to him. Yeah. Yeah. It's a, and it lived out what I've always told people about the war on drugs because I see how it's corrupted our government, our law enforcement, our courts in so many different ways that destroyed the Bill of Rights. And I keep telling people, that's not the, it's a spiritual issue.

And with Matt, that was the thing that turned him around. It was a spiritual issue. It brought him out of that. Yep. But tell us what you're doing here in Tennessee. Well, I just did an event in Farragut, and we just got done doing that Saturday night. And so in the process of doing that,

we usually meet up with Alan Keyes and do his show as well. Well, that's not any longer in function. So we decided to get together with David Knight and meet up with you good people. And so here we are. And you do a lot of traveling. I don't do any traveling. That's a little bit about what you do, typically going around with traveling.

Well, I guess my claim to fame would be that I've done about 366 public high schools in 25 states because we wanted to be a part of the answer, not a part of the problem. We've seen the young people being subjected to everything and protected from nothing. And we said, I don't want to be a part of that. I want to be a part of the answer. And after April 20th, 1999, Columbine, when that took place, we noticed everybody was running from the schools rather than to the schools, and that made no sense to me due to the fact that these are our kids. And another thing that doesn't make sense to me is how, you know, 86% of

those that claim to be patriots, Christians, and or conservatives are dropping their kids off to be subjected to everything and protected from nothing, being raised up by their sworn enemies, in fact, just to ask them. And that never made sense to me. So again, we just stepped into the the realm of reaching out to those young people that we understood because we understand that they're going to be our future. And if you look at the past concerning who we are, where we came from, you'll look at the likes of George Whitfield, many of these enlightening preachers, the Black Robe Regiment, so on and so forth. They actually spent time in the colleges and with the young people because they understood

that they were going to be the future. And that's where we wanted to sow our seed and that's what we've been doing. Well, the people who are our adversaries also know They're the future. Exactly. And they know they get these kids early. They've got them for life pretty much. And that is something that has always been there. I mean, God told us that.

He said, you know, train up a child the way they should go. And, but of course, we've also seen the other side, the Machiavellian side of the people saying, give me a kid, you know, for this many. And I've got him for the rest of his life. So that's a very well-known aspect of it. So that's great that you're doing that. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. It is interesting. You know, I've had so many, because we've always homeschool our kids, I've had so many, I've had so many Christians would come to us and say, no, I'm putting my kids in as salt and light, and it's like, you need to give them some basic training before you send them in the battle, I think. You know, it's a, when you get into a situation, as you're pointing out, they've got not only the peer pressure, but they've also got the pressure of authority from above. And we've seen how powerful that is, just take a look at everything that happened to us in 2020, right?

That was a combination of peer pressure and pressure from authorities like Fauci, right? You put all that stuff together, and even adults can't realize. handle that, let alone kids, I think. Yeah. Well, I mean, again, there's no question about it because what happens is, and I got a prime example for you. I remember doing a high school assembly program we were doing in Pensacol, and we used to travel in a 45-foot bus with 30 people on it. And we got there, and we've seen five churches around this particular high school. And I stopped and I made note, and I said, hey, guys, now I just want you to look around because this is what we're up against. We understand that the church is called to be the moral compass of society. And when that goes,

everything else goes. And I said, what we're seeing is everything else go, because we got all these pastors that talk about love, and they jam it down the throats of the young people, you know, one to two times a week. But the young people are then dropped off at the school gate to be indoctrinated by the federal government through a violation of the 10th Amendment. And they're trying to figure out where the love is at. And if you look at the culture today, David, and I'm sure we can all attest to this. But when we look at the culture, that is the church's report card. And again, it falls back to my responsibility in writing the wrongs because when I look at the young people of today, I look at them as being, I am my brother's keeper and I have a responsibility, regardless

if they are directly my descendant or not. I still have a responsibility to look out for each other because of that scripture, Matthew 2237, where we're to love each other and were to do onto others as we'd have them do on to us. I see too many people being kicked to the side and I see a lack of love. So I wanted to demonstrate what the Lord did for me on their behalf. And that's what we've been doing? That's great. So what is your message in a nutshell to them? In general, you've got a limited amount of time to get through to them.

What is the point that you really want to get across? My limited portion time is about three hours when I do a high school assembly. So you got an elevator pitch that's three hours. Oh, and I'll tell you what, here's the thing, David. And this is a fact. One of the things that we want to show the young people is if you don't know where you came from, you don't know where you're going. And common sense comes into play there.

And what we want to do is we want to tear down all the lies that have been told to them and show them, in fact, who they are. So we're tearing down and then we're building up. And one of the things that I'll do is I'll get off. We play music. As Paul said, I've become all things to all men to win the more to Christ. So we play music uncompromisingly Christian music, but it's metal rap. So it equates to the kids and they can relate to it.

And the first thing I'll do is I'll get off. as the drummer, I'll ask all the student body. We can have teacher faculty and the student body from 3,200 to 50 students, regardless of where we're at. And the first thing I'll ask them is, do you know your founding documents? And I'll say like the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, the enumerated laws found in the Constitution. And without fail, those young people will laugh, along with the teacher faculty. And then I'll ask them the question, well, if you don't know your rights, then you don't know your rights, then you do you have any rights? No, you don't. And then what I'm doing is starting to get them to focus in and thinking about now what is it that we need to pay attention. So I want to tell them something nobody's ever told them before. So the next question I asked them is, so how many have grandpas,

how many have dads, how many have brothers, uncles, cousins, friends, neighbors that have actually served in foreign war? How many of those men fought blood and died fighting against tyrants in other countries, and yet you don't know what they fought, bled, and died to give you. And about 90% of the hands go up in the room. And so for the next three hours, I have their undivided attention. And it's pretty amazing because I think what it really does is bring understanding that if we meet the Lord on his terms, we'll see the Lord on his terms. And he'll do the same things that he's always done when we meet him on those terms. And we get their attention, as I said, and then we tear down. And then at the very end of the program,

I'll ask them, do you understand the price paid for your freedoms? Like I'll go to World War I. We had 116,516 men that fought blood and died. And you thought it was funny that you didn't know your founding documents. But if you look at those that served in those wars, they put their hand up in the air, swearing to God and man to uphold the laws against all enemies, both foreign and domestic. So help me God. And then I tell him my grandpa was there.

And then I go to World War II. And I tell them during World War II, there was 405. 1,39 men that fought blood and died fighting against the tyrant across seas. And you thought it was funny that you didn't know the documents in which they were magnifying even with their lives. And I then begin to insert, now we understand that freedom was given unto us to do what we ought to do rather than what we want to do. And then I go to Korea, 36,517 men.

My dad was there picking up body parts. World War II, my uncles were there. Then I go to Vietnam where there was 58,121 men that died in that senseless war. And then I began to share with them that my cousin was killed there. And by the time that I'm done talking about what needs to be said to these people, namely the young people, they want to stand up and live for what those men died for. And if I didn't bring that message to them, they're just living. They're just walking in a circle, trying to figure out which direction to go.

you know, what's the next party I'm going to go to? Who cares about school? No, now I gave them a reason to live. And I showed them the, you know, once I showed that price to them, they understood that they needed to stand up and live for those that died for them. And that's exactly what they do. You know, it's interesting as you're talking about that. It makes me think of Lewis Carroll-Zallis and Wonderland, where I think at one point, she asked the Cheshire Cat, you know, which direction should I go and he goes, well, where you go? And she's, I don't know. Well, then it doesn't matter which way you go, right? That's exactly right. That's kind of where we are right now, where that Alice in Wonderland crossroads, that we don't know where we're going. And more importantly, we don't know where we've been. And so you look at this and as I'm looking, we're talking about protecting the kids and so forth.

And yet we've got this Kids Online Safety Act, which is basically a Trojan horse for digital ID. And here in Tennessee, we've got Marsha Blackburn who's been carrying the water for the technocracy. she's probably going to be the next governor that's here. And I'm really kind of wondering what that's going to be like. She is pushing for data centers. As a matter of fact, she's out there saying, you know, data centers are a wonderful thing.

We've got a lot of communities that want these. So if your community doesn't want it, you know, we've got places where you can put it. And it's like, so she's going to cover us with data centers here in Tennessee? I don't know of any community that wants a data center. No, that's right. And what do you see in nationwide? People standing up and it's the safest bet that when the politicians say, this is where we all want to go.

You can look the other direction. Because you're seeing nationwide, the people are standing up, in fact, protesting AI right now. And so we're the politicians, again, getting off, trying to sell us something that none of us want. That's right. Well, and the other part of it is that, and of course, talking about Matt Ruehalla,

he had a great sermon. I played it extensively. He said, you've got to understand these places are not data centers. They're surveillance centers. And if you push back on this stuff because you don't like the higher electronics. trustee bills or you don't like the pollution or the noise pollution or whatever, the water usage. They'll fix that and they will still come at you and they'll still have the surveillance

centers. So even if these things are not being put up next door to you, it's still going to be spying on you and that's the real issue. That's going to be abused. Well, David, I can take it to the fact that we're already being spied on because we have something. When we land from city to city, we turn the phone back on. We'll have conversations in the car. Before I know it, I'm online seeing what's going on in the United States of America and all of a sudden I'm seeing all of these ads that we were just talking about in the car, regardless of what I was talking about, they'll come up and they'll try to kit me with some sort of sale or some allurement to go into their business. And we're beyond that. And I don't think people realize that that's happening at home. That's happening at hotels. That's

happening at the airlines right now. We're being surveilled everywhere we go at this point. And no one's going to tell me otherwise because of what I've already experienced. And, you know, we almost laugh at it, but it's really not a joke because it's intrusive and it's unlawful. And I don't think people realize to the degree that these people mean to go with us. And of course, we're at the point now where they are mandating that we have cameras in the car watching us to see if we're driving because it's for our safety, of course. Everything is always for our safety. They have the Kids Online Safety Act here. But in the UK, they just call it the Online Safety Act. But they also put the kids up front as the reason that we have to be concerned about it. And yet, doesn't that

ring phony when we look at all the things that they do to kids? Well, it does. And if I can just, I've seen something on the outside of what you were just saying there. It's interesting that, what is it in 2027 now that every vehicle that's sold to the American people, probably worldwide, will have a kill switch in there. And I don't think people realize that also means that they can take over the controls of your car and how intrusive and how deep it goes and how dangerous this really is and one has to beg the question, why is this happening? Because of the said statesmen, which are politicians, it's a slang word for a statesman, if they were actually doing their job in condemning the wicked and justifying the righteous, we wouldn't even be close to having

this conversation that we're having right now because they're already deterred the criminal from committing the crime by showing them the consequence. Well, that's out of sight and out of mind. So now they need to have more control over us. And what's crazy about it, David, is these people can't even control their own lives and yet they want to control ours uh no always think about that song that was popular when i was in high school of sunshine is like if he can't even run his own life i'll be damned if he'll run mine you know that's what they're doing that's exactly what they're only doing what the people are letting them get away with too and that's where the people have to stand up and say no more that's right and it's a key that people really understand what this is going because you and i know

that there's all the surveillance that is happening it's been happening for a very long time going back like a decade ago when Michael Hastings died in that car crash, we called it at that point time and said, look, you know, he's got a late model Mercedes that's probably the most wired car that he could have at that point in time. And he was out checking underneath his car because he was doing a report about some powerful people in government. And he thought they might be coming after him. And so we talked about that extensively. And everybody's, oh, that's a conspiracy thing. It's not because they had demonstrated that they could take over these cars through these minimal systems that they had back in 2013, 2014, they could take them over and hack those systems and

do very creative things with them. They show that kind of stuff at the, let's see, it's DEFCon and there's a couple of events that they have in Vegas, Black Hat Conference and other things like that where they demonstrate hacking so they can show the counter, you know, the White Hat hackers will show the counters to it. But, you know, it had already been shown. Just like taking over, hacking into voting machines and other things. Exactly. When I see it when you, that's why I bring that point up was because of Michael Hastings. That's one of those scenarios again that you're not going to tell me that there was not interference there. I seen the video. I watched the video. I seen what he was responsible for doing.

And that's exactly. It was just a young man that wouldn't shut his mouth and he was willing to do his job to let the people know what was going on. And he was actually making headway by getting some of the generals removed. Yeah. And so they had to remove him. And it's exactly what they did. Yeah. And I saw that. It's like, Like, okay, so he's going down the road at a very high rate of speed. In the middle of the night, no reason to be speeding like that. And his engine continues down the same path that he was going. But his car goes over and hits at a low velocity, hits a tree.

It's like, now a tree is not going to eject the engine at a right angle down the road. It's like it's obvious that he blew up on the road as he was driving. And then that hit. Yeah, that one bothers me. That one really, because I'm well aware of that situation. Yeah, yeah. Joe Biggs came to Info Wars based on that. He came and he was pushing back against that because he got to know Michael Hastings when he was doing the report that eventually became, what was some movie that Brad Pitt did, out of the book that he wrote about.

War Machine, thank you. And it was about Petraeus or McChrystal. McChrystal was the guy who was the general at the time. That's right. And Joe was saying he had all these people that are around McChrystal because it made him look bad. And of course, all these guys that are his aides have tied their career to him as well. And so they were making some death threats against him at that point in time as well. Well, things have changed in just the last year.

So I know you had me, you're kind enough to let me guest host your show several times when you had the radio show at GCN. GCN is gone now. Where can people find you? Well, we're over at BBS now. And they're out of Texas, Austin, Texas. And they're two twin brothers. And they're fantastic. They picked us up.

They actually sought us out when GCN went down. Oh, and P.S. For the record, Ted Anderson also sought us out when we were with Sam the communication. So this is none of my own doings in any sense of the word as to how we're being led here. But yet we're over at BBS now. And we're just getting picked up by radio affiliates across the country. I recently got picked up out of Florida. And then we broadcast into about 160 cities.

So we're happy to have you, David. We're happy to have you. And your website, Sons of Liberty, you do? Do you do live podcasts that the podcast? Every day. Every day except for when I'm on the road right now. I actually have Tim Brown, the guy that oversees Sons of Liberty Media.com.

The website, he's taken over the show. And we do a church service on Sunday as well. And the reason we're doing the church service is because people are asking the question, where do we go to church? It's like, I understand. And when you read the book of access, you see that house churches were very popular. So I decided to just facilitate and I was honored the people asked and we

accommodated. also got picked up by Mike Lindell's television network just last week. And that's going to be, hopefully that's going to be interesting that trip. But I'm actually, one of the things, David, you know, in saying all of this, people don't understand that I'm not just there to drop the hammer on the corruption that I see or the politicians that inadvertently act out in such a way that they do. I spend a lot of time on the outside with these people that many complain about, like these younger senators, these younger said representatives.

And I'm actually taking them to the word of God into the Constitution. And I'm giving them the answers and I'm showing them their responsibility because after all, when it comes to their oaths, they swore to uphold the enumerative law. So I'm showing them their responsibility. And it's one of those things that I feel obligated to do when we go across the boards. Now, I know that there's some politicians that are just too far gone. And I know who they are because they won't respond to our requests to have them on the show. but we're casting a lot of good seed into a lot of these younger people.

And one of the things that I'd shared with you even before we got on the air here was the articles of impeachment in the state of Minnesota. I took the time to sew into some of the representatives. And I also held them to her account that we have provision given unto us by our forefathers to hold Tim Walls accountable, to hold Keith Ellison accountable, Ilhan, Omar, Frey, the list goes on. And a lot of them really didn't have any idea what I was. talking about. And I say to him, well, when you look at the, you know, above the Supreme Court justices in Washington, D.C., what do you see there? You see Moses holding the Ten Commandments,

right? Exodus 20, Romans 13, Deuteronomy 5, so on and so forth. And what does it say right under him? It says, justice, the guardian of liberty. So we need justice. And our said representatives, they work for us, as we all the well know, that they drive their just powers from the consent of we the people. And what we see is we see a whole lot of politicians operating outside of their scope of authority. So I share with the representatives, we've been given provision by our forefathers to hold them accountable for the smallest of infractions, misdemeanors. They lie to us once. Let's deal with them, right? Article 2, Section 4. But I tell them, too, it doesn't stop there. Once they're impeached, we prosecute Article 1, Section 3, Clause 7. So we have to establish righteousness by bringing

forth the judgment, but we can't do that if we don't know God's law. And so in saying that I spend a lot of time with these guys, and I would say much of what's been going on in the state of Minnesota, at least to hold them accountable, has been coming through the ministry in the Word of God and holding them to what they professed that they would hold to. That's great. Because if they have no fear of God, they're not going to have any fear of man, even a large number of men that are going to be out there.

And that really is the key thing. We were recording this on Monday afternoon. We had somebody who left a comment earlier today on the show and said, they pray for the politicians to come to Christ so that it will change their heart and they will behave differently, but also for God to intervene and protect us from them if that doesn't happen. But I think that's a key thing. When we look at this, we don't fear man because we have an inheritance with God. And so we don't fear men and we don't fear death from that type of perspective.

But at the same time, you know, that is our hope. That's what gives us an even keel. That's why we're not freaking out. We're not blackpilled and we're not suicidal, right, because of that. But it's also our hope that perhaps some of these people will come to Christ. They will, you know, because they can change and God can change their heart. And we don't know. And as you pointed out, you throw the seed out there, but just like the parable is

so where you don't know what kind of soil it's going to fall on. But we throw it out there without knowing whether it's going to fall on anybody or not. Yeah. You know, I think in saying that as well, I think a lot of times when people talk about, we need to pray for them. Yeah. But keep in mind, David also prayed, but he also went out and took care of Goliath. And so we can't hide behind prayer.

We have to actually show the world our love by our faith, by our works. And the fact of the matter is holding our said representatives accountable to the laws that they swore that they'd uphold. Well, if you look at that, we have to understand that that is a similar oath concerning those that are six feet under the ground today that fought blood and died to give us what it is that we have. Case in point. I had a Samuel communications when I was over there. He was a new manager. He came up to me and I was highlighting the crimes of Barack Obama's criminal administration.

As a matter of fact, I made sure that I was broadcasting in D.C. in Chicago and in Minneapolis as well because I wanted everybody to know who Barack Obama was and what he was responsible. for. I wasn't running from it. I was running to it just like David did for Samuel 17. And what's interesting there is the new manager got off. And he said, Bradley, I want to talk to you for a minute. I said, what's that? He goes, well, I want to know why you keep, you know, disrespecting the office of the president. I said, what are you talking about? I was instantly offended. And I said, what are you talking about? He said, well, you keep calling out the crimes of this administration. I said, I'm not disrespecting the office by calling him out for violating the law, you're disrespecting the office by thinking somehow or another that that individual

has a right to stand there and desecrate and stamp underfoot the blood that has been shed to give them the opportunity to be in office in the first place. I'm living unto those that died for me. You are not and you're seeing this backwards. So again, once we put that under perspective, I think people begin to understand, wait a second, I never thought about that before. men died to give us the freedoms that we have and know the politicians don't have a right to do the wrong thing because as Charles D. Monoske rightly said, liberty is the right to do it. The law permits, whose law? God's law. Not man's law because once we begin to remove God's law and put man's in the place that Jesus warned us up in Mark 7, what are we going to get? Look around. Yeah. We have to get back to

him and him alone and do business the way that he commanded us to do it because if we don't, we're going to lose this republic. I think back to a clip that I play today in retrospect of Lindsay Graham, and there was at one point, a woman challenged him and said, there's a lot of Christians who would push back on your perspective of war, you know, and he immediately came back. He said, well, you know, we, we nuked these two cities because we wanted to save lives that were there. And I've heard that argument many times myself as well. But the reality is, is that when he's talking about Karg Island in Iran, he's saying, yeah, we took, we took Iwo Jima. And of course, the 7,000 Marines, it wasn't involving Lindsey Graham, but he's more than willing to sacrifice soldiers for his political

Machiavellian plans wherever it is, whether it's in Ukraine or whether it is in Iran or whatever. And I look at it, and it's like, if we get away from the understanding of a just war, which is, as Christians, we don't start wars, right? And that's all. been the perspective, but we've seen it change in Western civilization. We've seen that change. It used to be anathema to start a war. And everybody would argue over who fired the first shot that was heard around the world or whatever, because nobody wanted to be that guy who started it.

Now they start it and boast about starting it. That's the amazing thing to me about it. And they target since World War II, we've been targeting civilian populations. The Germans started it. We retaliated. And we did Dresden. We did Hiroshima and Nagasaki. and now that is standard operating procedure.

We target civilian targets and civilizations. And yet that's not even an effective strategy. It's not only is it immoral, but it's not even a good military tactic. And that's the thing to me. That's where we are now. It bothers me so much to see all these wars being started by us and that we're attacking civilians.

Our job should be to try to stop the war. We fight a war defensively to stop it, not because we've got some agenda, some geopolitical agenda. Yeah, well, it goes and reverts back to Arlington Cemetery. If we take the time to go over the Potomac River and we look at the Arlington, look at the other side of the river. What do you see, the politicians that are actually creating the wars? And what I think people need to take a step back and consider concerning the Lord's

wars and man's wars is when you look at our forefathers, when there was a righteous cause for a war that they didn't want, we know that as a fact because of the olive branch that they continuously offered that was rejected by the king across the pond who would not be ruled by God. It would do us all well to understand that if our forefathers thought it was a righteous war, they were the first ones to go. And now what do they do? They call up your boys and they ask for the blood of our children to go fight their wars.

Send your sons and daughters. Exactly. Right. And that's, by the way, that is a judgment name is for. But it's also important for people to understand that we have 737 military bases in over 142 countries. is there something wrong with that? And consider this. It was Henry Kissinger that spoke into how many ears of the presidents driving wars.

That's that our military men are just dumb, stupid animals, only to be used for foreign policy. If that could be dropped in the ears of every American, I believe right at that point, that's when they would understand what the politicians are all about because they're working on the behest of who, military, industrial complex. It needs to stop. That's right.

Yeah, they just lost their best cheerleader in Lindsay Graham. Amen. Amen. Look at that. You're listening to the David Knight Show. It truly is amazing to see that these people have been at the epicenter of all of these hot spots that we've got. You know, Lindsay Graham, as I pointed out today, he was there back in 2014. He and McCain and then again in 2016.

Next year we're going to go in Russia. Next year we're going to go after Putin. And that was six years before Russia attacked. So it's like, who's the aggressor here? Right. How many of those wars do you think would ensue if they actually knew that they were the ones that had to go, them and their children? Yeah. No.

If you want the wars to end, send the politicians because that's insured for all of us to end those wars. Yeah, I'd pay to watch that actually. Amen. I'll be a part of that, actually. Yeah. These old guys, they're not in that greatest shape, but it would be a slow-moving war, wasn't it? Exactly. They're going to be sending in the machines to come after us, though, I think.

That's my concern about this. And we see, as I look at Western civilization, totally turning us back on the principles that have been the foundation. You know, the idea of individual liberty and the moral principles that Western nations have been built on. I mean, they can sense that there's something on the cusp here that they can seize. And they've never had, no tyrants have ever had the kind of tools that these guys are creating right now and already have. And they're looking at the future with and just salivating over what they're going to be able to do to us. Yeah. So, and this is the kind of stuff where my spirit really rises up here because the bad guys have been trying to do this for a long.

long time. They're trying to create a world without the Lord. That's right. That's never going to happen. The seat of the righteous is forever. And the Lord says in Psalm 2 that he will sit in the heavens and he will laugh at them. He'll have them in great derision. I don't care what sort of technology has been given unto them. It's a condition to the heart of the American people. And when that's right, everything else will be right. And none of that stuff matters concerning what the bad guys are doing. One of the things that I see David continuously is people magnifying the power of the bad guys. Well, I don't think people realize the bad guys have the power that they have because the people are allowing them to do it. Edmund Burke said this. He said evil prevails because good men do nothing.

I respect Edmund Burke, but he was really wrong on this one because good men do not allow evil to prevail. So what we see is every country deserves the government that it has. We're in the position that we deserve exactly what we get for what we've allowed them to do to other countries when we're speaking of war. But again, it comes back to the fact that people are constantly talking about what the bad guys are doing and how these elites are controlling the world. No, no, no. Folks, we don't take counsel from our fears. you were talking about that earlier. No, no. Those that fear the face of God

don't fear the face of man, said Bonhoffer. And those that fear the face of God don't fear the face of man. And so if that's true and that's what we're made out of these colors don't run, then why don't we actually believe our own profession and quit living our lives who we're worried about what the bad guys are doing?

Why don't we live our lives where the bad guys are worried about how we're living our lives? Yes, right. That's how we all have to live. And I think, I've said this before on the radio, that, you know, when I see somebody like Yuval Harari or whatever, or Klauchwaffe or some of these people, or some of the technocrats who were talking about their power and how they're going, Alex Carp is a great example of this. When I see that, I think back to David and Goliath, and he saw Goliath taunting God, and he says, all right, now he's mine. And to me, that is the most encouraging thing. things that keeps me going. I mean, you look at this stuff, and it's very dark, right? Every day we look

in the news and we look into the dark abyss. And yet in that dark abyss, I see this fist shaking at God and it's like God will take care of that. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. But again, it's the people respondingly according to what the Lord has already done. And that's where I see. What do we got? 81% of the American people that profess to be Christians, and yet I go across the country. I've done this 3,000 times, David. I can't tell you that I've seen 3% being genuine Christians across the country. And that's why we're being spent for the cause. Go full circle back to the beginning of the conversation. When you look at the preamble of the Constitution, what does it talk about during the very end? Why is it that the forefathers,

did what the forefathers did for their posterity. Yes. Well, just last month, we were all celebrating 250 years of having the longest standing constitution and modern history. Only the Lord can do that. But most people don't even know what they're celebrating. That's right. And that's what's sad about all this.

Joseo 4-6 comes to my aid. People are destroyed for lack of knowledge. People have no excuses in this country as to why. this country is in the predicament that it's in today. And again, so I would suggest that people just simply repent, as the word of God tells us to, for violating God's moral law and put our faith in Christ and let him take us the rest of the way by the Holy Ghost. Because that is our purpose on this earth. There is nothing else for us to do but to right the wrongs.

And there's so much that needs to be done at the personal level and from the grass up. That's probably where it has happened. Because as you pointed out, over and over again in the Bible, what do we see? When it's a time of revival, God turns the hearts to the fathers to their children. Amen. And yet we have the hearts of even the mothers have now been turned away from their children, which is what I see over and over again when I look at what is being fed to us, even by Republican outlets.

Last week I talked about a New York Post article where they were talking about trad wives, which is like this fantasy that they've created for social media, right? It's just basically posing. If I dress up like a 1950s housewife, which we used to laugh at in the 50s and 60s, is like the commercial version that was sold to us then by television was laughable because everybody would say, well, nobody dresses in high heels to mop the floor, right, which is what they would do. But now they're basically doing that again, but doing it on social media, you know, dressing up like, you know, and playing house. But it had nothing to do really with traditional marriage. It had no understanding of traditional marriage. And yet you had the New York Post,

which is constantly on the side of the Republicans, was trashing it with feminists and radical leftists who were picking apart the idea of marriage and the traditional marriage and just holding up this straw man of these TikTok influencers out. They're saying we're trad wives and everything. It's like, no, marriage is awful. You don't want to be locked down on this. You want to have a career. You want to be free and all the rest of the stuff.

And so we have, that's really, as you point out, that's where our problem is. And we've got to fix it at that level. Before we can fix it, we can't fix it at the top. The bad stuff is trickling down from the top. But we have to fix the people of the grassroots. Well, we don't even want the right things anymore. Right. I do.

And, you know, if you ask the average Joe or marry, whatever it would be concerning gender, do you think that we've fallen from God? And I don't think there's anybody that would disagree with the fact that that's exactly what we've done. And if we look at statistics nationwide, there's no question as to what the problem is. We have wickedly departed from the living. God. There is the problem. And what people do is they keep putting up the politicians as if to suggest that they're people of importance and they're actually telling us the truth. That's not what they're doing. They're misleading us and they're guiding us into a direction that is un-American. And we see

that every day. I'm speaking to the choir here, David. But again, we have to take heed to what we're listening to, what we're feeding upon. And that's why I choose the bread of life. Because if he's the one that died from me. And, you know, over 2,000 years ago, and he bled Calvary, blood with his red to redeem me back to the father. Hey, there's nothing in me that says, I'm doing the wrong thing when I know I'm doing the right thing. And it's following him and it's holding to him. And he's not failed me. And that's my testimony right there in a nutshell. Well, you know, look at it, you're talking about you go across the country, you see so many people. And it's like they call themselves Christians are professing Christians. And of course, that's all. And,

always been the issue. People profess Christ but not possess them. And George Barna talks about that. He'll talk to people and say, okay, you're Christian. What do you believe? They don't believe the Bible. They don't believe any of the tenets of the faith. And it's like, so what really does this label mean to anybody? And that's an interesting thing as well. When we talk about what is Christian nationalism? We've got both the left and the right now running candidates who have, you know, they've been pastors or they got some seminary degree, or there may be, if they're like Tolerico, they haven't even gotten through the Presbyterian seminary that he goes to. Yeah.

Well, remember, nobody rebuked the religious hypocrites more than Christ and self-did. And if you look at the people that were praising him two days earlier, well, they wanted to make him the king, they were the same ones crying out, crucify him, crucify him, we have no king but King Caesar, John 1915. It's exactly what we're seeing today in America. America doesn't know what she's got and she's going to understand what she's got when it's lost. And I hope it does not go that far. I really do. That's right.

You know, when you look at what it's happening in China, for example, I just had this last week. There was an interview with some people who had escaped because China's going around. She is on a run of persecuting Christians who are not part of the three-person. self church or whatever. You know, they have the, he called it the cynization, the China, you know, state church. Yeah, the state church. So they got a couple of those. And, and they're basically, you know, they rewrite the Bible. They use it as a surveillance tactic. But if you have a home church, which is really thriving there, they go around, they try to arrest people for fraud or all kinds trumped up charges. But it comes, the knock comes in the middle of the night, right? And these guys

break down the door, separate families, drag them off, you can't find your husband or your wife. I mean, that is absolutely insane. And yet the church persists at the house church level. If you've got a centralized system, hierarchical system, which we always like to do, don't we? That is easily taken out. But if you've got something that is done, decentralized like the house churches, that is resilient. Tell us a bit about your house church. I wanted to add to that if you don't mind, David. It's interesting that you would say that because that's exactly what Paul was doing.

Exactly what Paul was doing, making a havoc of the church. And it's one of the things that I've noticed and I just had a thought on top of that thought concerning what it was that you were talking about. And I'm sorry, but going back, I'll answer the question. that you just asked me until I get that thought back. But it's been exponentially growing week after week. As I said, Mike Lindell just picked us up. He wanted a church service.

And we decided to go with them. And he picks up the Saturday show and the Sunday show. And in the process of doing just that, we have 3,500 more people, you know, joining us. every time we pick up another network. So, and it's not about the money because if that was the case, I wouldn't be doing it at all. It really is about just getting the word of God out there and see what the Lord won't do

because I believe that he's given us an opportunity because the darker it gets, the brighter we become. And so it's grown quite a bit. And I'm just really honored, but I'll tell you what, it's also pushed me deeper into understanding the doctrines, John 717, Jesus said, you must know concerning my doctrine. It's not just the modern gospel. It's no, it's setting things straight now. It's not turning the world upside down. It's turning the world right side up and holding to what the old school preachers used to preach during the

founding era of this country. And I'll tell you what, that takes a lot of work. But again, I'm honored. And if anything, I'm growing leaps and bones in the process as well. So when I'm having church, it's not just me preaching to them as if I knew this my whole life and I'm giving something to them that I've always had. I'm learning as I'm preaching and praise God for the Holy Ghost. Yeah, I know that goes. We had a, back in North Carolina, we had a neighborhood church that we did. And so there was basically three families. And I know exactly what you're talking about because it's like, okay, so we're just going through a book of the Bible and we just take it in sequence. And so it's coming up and you do your due diligence so that you are well informed

about a lot of different takes on this particular topic or whatever that's going to be presented in the next thing. But it was really good because one of the things we do is first we would go through the text. But then after that, we would talk about what was happening in each other's lives, which is the key thing that I find missing in the formal churches that we have. You go there, you get a lecture or sermon or something like that. And then, you know, afterwards, people stand around, they might talk about football games or something like that that's happening. And then that's basically it. But we would talk about real hardcore meat issues that were happening in our lives and our families and that type of thing and really share our concerns

with each other. That's what I think is really the heart of the home church movement. Right. That one-on-one relationship that you don't get when you go to a church that's got hundreds of people and you got one guy that's up front and he becomes kind of the vicar of Christ or whatever right yeah right i i can i'm tracking with you it's interesting one of the first things that i brought up when i did my first church service is listen a lot of what we expect the lord to be for us he's raising up to be for you and that's called discipleship and that's what we're talking about we need disciples out there doing what it is the lord has called us to be and if we're the church then what are we called to be we're all called to do

the work of an evangelist i don't care if we're an apostle a prophet a teacher any evangelist or a pastor we're all called to do the same thing and if our heart is the love of god has been shed in our hearts by the holy ghost who's been given unto us romans 5 5 we're all going to do the same thing. We're all going to follow the same Christ. And he said in Matthew 419, you follow me. I'll cause you to become what? Fischer's of men. And that's what discipleship is all about. That is not a part of the equation in the American church. It's now become about entertaining the American people. Yeah. And not offending anybody. Right. Well, they're making enemies of the cross of Christ is what they're doing. Yeah. Instead of deny yourself,

take up your cross and follow me. It's now, come here. We'll entertain. you to death and don't worry about it because you're going to heaven. That's taking the grace of God out of context in a big way. It really is. Yeah. And, you know, when you're talking about it, well, I'll call it to be evangelist. Well, what that is is telling somebody the good news that's happened to us. My testimony.

Yeah, exactly. I got my thought back. I was preaching at a college, Rick Joyner's College, Tammy Fay Baker and Jim Baker's old place in, I believe it's South Carolina. You know what's interesting about that, David, is when we got there, I had no idea. It's like, why is this so familiar? Because when I was a kid, I remember they had cable, and I remember seeing these two fanatics on the television set. And it was always them begging for more money so they could build this little kingdom in South Carolina.

Well, I'm there. I'm preaching. I end up going down one of these little hallways. And in the process of doing so, all of a sudden, I started to see. Jim and Tammy Fay Baker. I said, you've got to be kidding me. Rick Joyner actually bought that old place. It is absolutely awesome.

When you go in there, it looks like it's still said in the 1980s. Nothing's been changed or moved, right? Everything's, it's immaculate. It really is. It's pristine in so many different ways, but in the 1980s. But what's interesting is I was there preaching to the college, and I've done the high school there a couple times as well. And Rick had asked one of his attendance to come and get me and to bring me back into where Rick was to introduce me to everybody. And so I finished the college there

and I go into this new room and there's about 100, 130, 150 people there and I had no idea what's going on. And he goes, Bradley, want you to go ahead and stand up and introduce yourself. And I'm thinking, okay, well, Rick, who am I talking to? I didn't, I'm just speaking out loud. my thought life to you. And I said, okay, so I got up to the pulpit, and I introduced myself, and they said, well, what are you doing? I said, well, this is what I do. And this is what I've been doing for a long time and why I do it.

And I said, and for the life of me, and this goes back to the lack of Christianity, more of a profession, merely a profession. I said, for the life of me, I don't understand. Why is it that we raised trillions of dollars in the American version of the church? and we send missionaries over to other countries to preach to their countries, a gospel that they failed to preach to their own kids. I was preaching to the mission board. That's who I was talking to.

So I think that was a due rebuke for all of them. But I noticed that, and I see this more than anything, and to be quite frank with you, our opposition in doing public high schools has been the American church. Really? Because they don't want the outside. world to see what it is that they've left off because we're doing it. Well, our objective is not to go in there and to shame anybody, but if it shames you to obey the Lord, then praise God for that. But if you look at

numbers 14 and 15s, you'll see Moses given the command by God to Jacob and Caleb to go show them, go get the good fruit of the land, bring it back, and show them that they're more than able to overcome. Well, that's exactly what we've been doing for 31 years now in ministry. And in the process, what's the response of the people that call themselves Christians? Well, the same response, Jacob and Caleb God. Let's pick up stones and kill them. And the reason is, because again, they don't want the world to see what Christianity is about. We're called to bring the answers to the world. We're not to be a part of the problem or to be a part of the answer. I Isaiah 58 versus 12.

That's right. Yeah. I remember whenever you say Tammy Fay Baker, I always think there was a T-shirt that went around because she was always crying. You know, a tremendous amount of makeup, and she was always crying. And there was a T-shirt that was like a kind of a face, but it was all these different colors that you'd have on makeup, and it's all running. And it says, I ran in Tammy Faye at the mall.

Oh, yeah. You know, he repented in prison, Jim did. And then I think he got out, and we've actually been trying to get him on the show. I think he's, and maybe I should just not say anything there, but hopefully he's repentant and hopefully he's on the right track. But wasn't that a shame to see what they were doing as a representation of Christ? And if people had read their Bibles, they were to understand that that was not a representation of Christ at all. That's right. That's right. Well, I talk about that a lot. You know, when I see people who are, it concerns me a great deal when I see Pete Hegseth, for example.

You know, and he boasts about how many people he's going to kill. It's like if, I'm sorry, if you're in that position, you ought to, you know, if you feel like it's absolutely necessary to use force to protect innocent life. Right. Not as aggression, but to protect innocent life, even that you would do reluctantly and not boast. about it and it really bothers me because that is not what Christianity is about any more than the TV evangelist right out there that we're asking for money all the time someone someone needs to tell Pete there's a difference between kill in defense yeah and murder on the offense that's right because there's a judgment set for that and we better understand we're all going down that same road that's right but he's from Minnesota Forest Lake Minnesota we know people that

grew up with him. And I would love nothing more than the opportunity. And I say this by the grace of God, respectfully, I would love nothing more than the opportunity to preach to everyone in this administration. Because I know that that evangelical board is not an evangelical board. They are the baser sword, First Kings 1333, to lower the morale of this country by suggesting to the rest of us that they're Christians, when in fact, nothing could be further from the truth. Oh, I agree. I agree. Yeah, they have their gods that they fiercely worship. They do. It's not the God that we worship. That's right. Amen. Amen. Well, it's great talking to you, Bradley. And it's the first time we've had a chance to meet. We've talked many times on the phone. But thank you for what you do. I appreciate

the hard work that you're doing traveling around. As I said, I don't travel. And I respect you. I I was just telling Karen this week, I said, you know, we've been to all these places when we were younger. I said because of planes, I don't even want to travel anymore because it's turned into such a dystopian nightmare, in my opinion. I hate to have hands on my body and I hate to be considered guilty and have to prove I'm innocent. And they don't do that in any other country. It's Americans. When we went to China, there were, and we were flying back. They came over in English over the P.A.

system saying if you're going to America, you've got to get there early. And those guys, go to get extra scrutiny because we're here in this police state that's here. But I told her, I said, no, the only traveling that I'm interested in doing right now is time traveling. And I can't do that either. Amen. I like to go back to previous times that I've experienced that were so much better than this point in time here. I agree. Yeah.

I agree. You know, and it's, even what you're talking about with the TSA. look at the employees i'm i'm not smacking down on anybody i'm not demeaning i'm not diminishing anybody but they're picking the baser sorts to do the things that they're doing and violating the american people you're the first person i've ever heard say this um you know our government after september 11th has accused that every american that goes to the airport train depot bus depot as a potential terrorist that's right and they've treated us just like that. Now, what do you suppose would have happened if the American people actually understood

the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights? That's right. Or if the Supreme Court did, Leslie. Insanity. Insanity. But I'm very offended. We always feel that relief once we get past TSA, but it is. It's a violation of the Fourth Amendment. One of the things, when we go through that, it's always, I can't wait until we're past this. I can't stand. It's violating. I knew after, September 11th, they weren't going to ease up. They were going to keep pushing it forward. And they try to take pictures of everybody right now. And we opt out of that. Absolutely not. We're not doing that. You guys have already taken this way too far. And the other thing is just don't put your hands on me or my family. Yeah. Well, and I hate that. But I forced them to do that because I report, I want to be as much of a monkey wrench to them as I can. So I always opt out. And then they play this little.

game and have me stand over by the x-ray machine. And it's like, I'm not standing here by the x-ray machine any either as punishment. Yeah, they want to make an example out of you. Yeah, yeah. It's like, oh, you don't want to be a radiated. Okay, well, then you go step in over here by the thing. It's not about that. You know, they don't understand why I'm really doing it.

But I'm still not going to stand next to the x-ray machine for them. Well, thank you for having me, David. We appreciate you. And I don't think we'd have drove this far if we didn't. And you were the first person I thought of. Well, thank you. And again, we appreciate you, man. Thank you so much.

Bradley Dean, and tell everybody where they can find you on the web. SonsaliburityRadio.com. SonsaliburityRadio.com is who we are and what it is that we've been doing for the last 31 years. That's our fruit. Judge me by my fruit, just like I say to judge everybody else. Matthew 7, 16, and 20. And then we have Sonsaliburtymedia.com. and we have eight to ten contributors from preachers to former military to constitutional attorneys,

adding to the contribution list over there for people to read. And we also have our store and our schedule over there as well. So sonsalibrietyRadio.com, sons of libertymedia.com. And he's on a lot of different radio stations as well. Yep, that's correct. All right. And I'll just point out, thank you so much for the referral. for the one that's in Florida, we're trying to get ourselves on a more formal clock here.

I got very undisciplined about my clock. I got it with the podcast. Okay. We just free format. Okay. And stop when I finish for the topic. But we're trying to get this set up so that it's more friendly for the radio that's there. But it's free to air for them.

So I appreciate it. Thank you so much. It's always good to try to get to as many ears as we can. that's why we're doing this to try to warn people and to try to wake them up as to what the real priorities in life are. Thank you so much. Bradley Dean, Sons of Liberty. Thank you.

Stay with us. We'll be right back with Eric Peters after this short break. You're listening to the David Knight Show. Joining us now is a man who needs an introduction to this audience, but of course, we've been doing him for over a decade now, probably about 12 years, but it's always great to have Eric Peters on. He and I have a very similar take on the world and what we see happening, and we are very concerned about liberty and mobility because we know the government wants to take both of those from us, and they're working very hard to do that. Eric Petersotto's.com is where you can find information about liberty and mobility. It's always great to have you on. Thank you for joining us, Eric.

Thank you for having me. I always enjoy our get-togethers. Well, thank you. Before we get into some of your articles, you've got some great stuff and a new tactic that they're rolling out in the cars to surveil us, of course, because it has to be 100% surveillance of everything that we do. interesting article that was on New York Times on Wednesday. The American EV has been crushed, and they even show a picture of a crushed vehicle. And it says, well, take the U.S. auto industry with it. And they start to go through this saying, well, you know, EVs were doing great. The global sales were booming. But now the American automobile manufacturers, for some reason, they're just crazy. They've decided that they need to move away from these things. And it may make them obsolete, they said. And it's kind of interesting to look at this perspective and how they're trying to breathe

life into this thing like it was Mitch McConnell. You know, it's, uh, what is your take on this? Why is, well, let's see. I try to move away from pancreatic cancer too whenever I get the chance. Well, we even talk about this about how they're losing a lot of money. It looked like a real boom time. They were getting all these generous subsidies and the consumers are getting generous subsidies and everything, but, um, and their sales went up by 66% and you look at that.

It's like, well, you know, if I was selling, um, by selling three of these things one year and I sold five the next year, hey, I got a 66% increase. Well, that's a nice way to put a spin on those numbers. the reality is is that if you're selling five cars, you're staying business. It doesn't matter if it's a 66% increase. Well, and the other thing is that even during the so-called boom times, they were still losing money.

During the three years that Ford was attempting to sell the F-150 Lightning, their flagship electric vehicle, they were reportedly losing about $20,000 on each sale. So you can imagine how long you can keep going down that road before you hit the dead end. And that's just been the same across the industry. Another really good example is Lucid. You know, Lucid is kind of the darling child. of the EV Apologists because it's sort of the ultra Uber, you know, the most spectacular of

all EVs. They've not yet made a single cent. They have lost a staggering amount of money. They have gone into bankruptcy or threatened bankruptcy multiple times before they found somebody to bail them out. At what point you recognize this is not a money-making proposition. Yeah, I know. Yeah. And you and I, one of our favorite dead horses that we like to beat are the self-traffing cars. Did you catch what happened on the 4th of July? All the issues created a massive traffic jam. I think it was in San Francisco. They just stopped because they ran out of juice and then they were brick and you couldn't move them. And they were all over the places, like five dozen of them, all over the city that were causing issues like that. Some of them driving through in last

month or so, we've had them driving through floods on the 4th of July. One of them drove through an intersection over a box of fireworks. That's got to make you nervous when you're setting an EV. You know, actually, this gives me heart because it's easy to get depressed when you hear about the AI and how, you know, essentially the Terminator scenario is imminent and we're all going to be crushed underfoot. I don't think AI is as smart as they think it is. No, I don't either. And that's the other part of it is that it may not be that smart, yet it still may take the economy down because they have created such a bubble on it. When people finally figure out, the emperor's got no clothes and the AI is not your next God, that may be what happens. Yeah, and speaking of the Waymo stuff, did you hear about the car that imprisoned the two teenagers and called the cops?

Yeah, that's right. It's good for doing that. It used to be the cops had to come looking for you. Now the car takes you to the cops. Maybe it does a breathalyzer as well. Yeah, there was also another article about how many 9-11 calls, 9-1-1 calls they have to make because people fall asleep in them. And they can't wake them up. And so they're not sure if the person's had a health issue or if they've just fallen asleep. Typically, they've just fallen asleep. But they have to call 911 to come out there and revive them.

So it's so entertaining, isn't it? If it weren't so tragic, it would be funny. And a footnote to this whole EB thing. It looks like Trump has finally fulfilled his promise about the tiny cars. Did you hear about this one? No, I didn't hear this. He's got a promise that he fulfilled? I hadn't heard that, yeah.

Well, you all got some details on. So Trump and Duffy, his transportation secretary, made a big, big splash the other day about how at last Americans are going to be able to buy the tiny car. Well, the tiny car seems out to be the Fiat Topolino, which is microelectric car. It's a golf card. It doesn't even have a door.

It has a rope. People will be allowed to buy the Fiat Topolino. Of course, you can't operate the Fiat Topolino legally on any road in this country. And even if it were legal, you couldn't use it because it stops me as 25 miles. an hour. Really? Wow. Wow, that's amazing. Yeah, I've been in certain communities, whether it's in Florida or South Carolina, an island that's down there. And they allow people to drive golf carts on the road. But yeah, that's a completely different thing, isn't it? That's exactly what we mean. Now, the kicker is, you know, the kicker is, guess how much this little Fiat Topolino EV golf cart is? Oh, no idea. What?

$15,000. Wow. Yeah. None of these things are cheap. I mean, I've looked at some of these off-road things, and it surprised me how expensive they were. That's, that's kind of typical for these things. The kicker to me is that you can buy the Topolino for $15,000, but you're not allowed to buy an actual tiny car such as the Mazda Flair, which I profiled a few weeks ago. The Mazda Flair is a little four-door gas engine car that you can get in Japan for $10,000 that has a top speed of close to 100 miles an hour. So it's absolutely viable on highways and anywhere else. It's not compliant. It doesn't have six airbags and it doesn't meet over standards and all this. But the point is, here's a $10,000, an actual tiny car.

That's the kind of thing that Trump hinted, you know, that people are going to be able to buy in this country. Of course, he pulled the rug out from under that. That's not going to happen. Yeah. And it's just, it's very frustrating to me because, you know, he's supposed to be a populist. Why doesn't he get out there and have a press conference and say, look, I think that Americans ought to be able to buy cars like this. That little Mazda is one of many, as you know. There are whole foetus of these under $15,000, completely functional, completely viable little vehicles that other people are allowed to buy in other countries that we are not allowed to buy.

Yeah. Well, Trump is, he's quite able to, you know, act unilateral. when it comes to getting this country into stupid wars and various other things. So, you know, why don't actually do something that people might actually like that would enhance his popularity? Get on TV and say, look, I'm waving my executive pen and I am going to decree that Americans shall have the opportunity to buy these cars if they want them. It will be legal for dealers to sell them. Of course, he'll never do that. No. And I bet when you look at this, we'll find out that one of his family members has got

stock in this Fiat thing. No doubt. That's typically probably why this happened. There's probably somebody in his family. What's that? They're perfect for Marlago. I mean, they're really cute. You look up a picture and they're super cute little things. If you've got a multi-million dollar golf course and you want your guys to be able to drive around and what look like little cars, there you go, very fun. Yeah.

Well, they won't let you drive a dune buggy, you know, right? Can't get that. Yeah, it's pretty amazing when you look at what they allow us to have and what they don't allow us to have. And you go back to this New York Times article, they're saying, oh, it's these American cars. They don't know what they're doing. And yet they go down the list of all these different car companies that are shutting down their line and shutting down EV.

So you got Ford, you got GM and a Buick that was there. You got Dodge, axing the battery-powered charger. Jeep, they had two plug-in hybrids that they discontinued. Honda, Nissan, Accura, and another one that's done by GM. So it's like, this is not simply American. This is reality across the board. The New York Times just doesn't care about what reality is, and they don't care what the marketplace wants.

They don't care what people can afford either. No, ideology drives this. That's right. I failed to get Volkswagen, which is a major player in Europe, and at one time was the world's largest car company, along with Audi, the Volkswagen Group, which also includes Porsche. Anyway, the news broke the other day that Volkswagen is going to cut its current product portfolio, in other words, the number of models that it sells by half, because things are bad, because they've lost that much money.

And part of that is, you know, the failure of the EVs that they've been bringing out. They had intended to have nothing but EVs by now. Well, they brought out models like, you know, the most egregious example, is that electric bus, the ID ones, which was supposed to recall the, you know, the hippie van. from back in the 60s and the 70s. But it's $60,000. And it has a, you know, it has a range of 220-something miles best case. I mean, that's fine for older retired people, I guess, who, you know, want a little fun second

car. But it's a practical car. It's utterly useless. And, you know, the sales were so dismal that after the first year that it was available, they actually just canceled it for a year. Now they're bringing it back again and maybe hoping they're going to be able to sell some more of them. But it's going over like a lead Hindenberg.

It's just, it's not going to work. It's got nothing to do really with how you stand on the, environment and greenness and all of that. At the end of the day, the bottom line is most people in this country have places to go. That's right. They don't want to sit for even 10 minutes. You know, here the latest thing they try to say is, oh, we've got it down to 10 minutes. 10 minutes you'll be able to get, you know, 100 miles of charge in 10 minutes. Who wants to sit at one of these stupid chargers waiting for 10 minutes to get 100 miles of range? And the answer is almost nobody. That's right. Not to mention the expanse and all the rest of the stuff.

And, you know, I've seen the pictures of that Volkswagen band many, many times I've not seen a single one in reality, not a single one anywhere on the road. So, you know, know really what they're talking about, aren't they, Eric? It's not EVs. It's not electric vehicles. It's IVs, ideological vehicles. That's brilliant. Yeah. And, you know, IVs apped in another way because you're tethered. That's right. You're tethered and it's on life support as well. And there's so many compounding hassles. I did an article based on my own experience. And my experience is pretty extensive driving these things. I've driven dozens of them now. And just the act of dealing with the chargers is an ordeal relative to filling up your car with gas.

For one thing, they're not standardized. Can you imagine that? That's how it'll conceive this way. Every gas has a standardized nozzle. It doesn't matter what gas station you go to, what the brand is. You don't have to think about it. You pick up that handle that it's going to fit your tank, right? Right. That's not the way it is. Each manufacturer, they have different types of things.

And sometimes you have to use an adapter to get the thing to fit. The other thing is they try to make it look like a gas pump. They have a handle and a nozzle. I have voltage, DC electricity. So it's got these very thick cables, really thick, heavy cables. And I'm a guy. And I'm trying to manhandle and manipulate this thing and try to get it around. try to get it and then aim it as a really complicated plug, which is sort of something like

if you've ever dealt with, like if you have a generator for your house, it's got that funky plug with multiple prongs on it. You know, it's kind of awkward to do to plug that in. It's not like another plate. Just plug it in. You don't really have to think about it. This you have to aim it right, line it up right, push it in more. Then once you've done that, then you have to go through all this rig and roll, getting the thing

to accept your debit or credit card. You can't pay cash. There's no human attendant. A lot of these charging kiosk, they want you to download an app. They want you to scan a code, all this stuff. Of course, they don't want you to pay cash. And they want you on their app and all the rest of it because they want to get data about you as well. That's a big part of all this.

I'm thinking, okay. So I know the last time I did it, it was a nice day, but imagine it's pouring rain or it's, you know, minus seven degrees outside or something. You're standing and you're trying to wrestle with the stupid hose, trying to get the stupid thing to read your card. Get it all lined up. And finally, at last, it starts to charge, you know. And now you get to, what are you going to do? I got to sit here for at least, at least 15 to 20 minutes to get any kind of meaningful charge put in the thing when I could have completely filled my gas tank in three or four minutes and been on the road. And back, it doesn't matter where you fall on the ideological spectrum. You have to be a masochist

to be willing to put up with that sort of thing. Absolutely. And you talk about, well, if it's really cold out there, you had a situation. I remember where you needed to have a charge for the EV that you were test driving. And it was too cold for it to take a charge. It had to get the battery up to a certain temperature. And it couldn't do that, so it wouldn't take the charge. Yep. And meanwhile, you know, the EV is desperately struggling to keep its battery pack at an optimum temperature for charging. And guess what? That burns electricity. Yeah, I know. This was not well thought out, except in the sense that they figured that this would be the way to deprive a lot of people of their freedom of mobility. That ultimately, in my opinion, what this has always

been about. It truly is. And of course, that's really what the flock cameras are about, too, isn't it? Basically, a way to take collection for geospatial intelligence. And that's where these guys have been focused ever since the internet became practical. I've talked about this many times. You go back to the 1960s, and the internet was designed by a DARPA psychologist. And he called it the intergalactic computer network, right? They shortened it up to internet. But they couldn't really do anything practical until the 1990s. And when they did that, all of a sudden you had a bunch of venture capital firms that one of them created by the CIA, Incutel, but the others had all these people from the CIA and from NSA that were there to hand out big money to the people that they

were going to allow to be competitors and may the best man win, but no matter who it is, all these competitors are going to do what we want to do. And that is to collect all this information about you. Now this is all coming together at this point in time. And one of the, vital aspects of this is the flock camera, which can identify your car specifically and identify the idiosyncrasies about your car, not just the automated license plate reader. And so we got a lot of people who are pushing back against this. I played a clip this week of what's happening in Houston. Somebody's, you know, they've got people who are chopping these things down and the police

can't get any leads on it because nobody wants to give them any information. You got a guy in New Mexico who was proud to chop these things down. They did catch him. He was chopping them off and they put up a sign and said, you're welcome. And this guy is a real fighter, and he understands exactly what this is about. Your article, you talk about it and you say, the problem isn't flock or ring. What is the problem? Well, in my opinion, I guess let's put this in some context.

I grew up in the DC area. So there are a lot of tourists in the DC area. And I remember as a kid, you know, you'd walk on the mall and you'd see people taking pictures. And, you know, using video recorders, you know, back then they were kind of clunky, but nonetheless, people were taking videos. Never bothered me. The reason it didn't bother me was because who's going to see this? Maybe that family is going to see my picture.

And as far as they're concerned, who am I? They had no ability to recognize me as an individual, you know, and to create a database about me or you. And then to use that in some way against us or to monetize us. So that's the distinction. The cameras themselves are not the problem, in my opinion. The problem is that government and the corporations that basically are incestuously involved right now and are using these as another tool to compile databases about us to track our movements. They can individualize this. That's what's wrong with this.

And that's what is to be attacked in my opinion. Not so much the cameras themselves. You know, the ring things are particularly egregious because, you know, these are ordinary people. buying them. They're putting in the ring doorbell camera because, you know, Porsche pirates. They don't want the guy to rip off their Amazon package. The thing is when you buy a ring camera, you're agreeing to let the hive mind access all of the data stream that's coming through the ring camera. So, you know, it's not just a private security camera for your house. There's nothing wrong with that. Right. The problem is that, you know, all this stuff is is going through you to somebody else,

to something else, to some entity out there. That's the problem. That's right. And, you know, I've talked about this many times, and it goes back to what we're talking about with social media. I've seen so many times libertarians who will say, well, you know, corporations can do whatever they want. You know, it's the government that I'm worried about. And then the lefties will have a different approach. Well, I don't care if the government does it because I trust them. I don't want those corporations knowing that they might try to sell something to me or something. Well, I'm a lot less threatened by that than I am by the government.

But, of course, the two of them are working together, as you point out. And the reality is, is that when they take our freedoms, when they shut down our speech on social media, when they do these other things, the purpose of government, as I've been saying as we hit this 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the purpose of government is to secure our rights. And so if somebody is censoring me or they're spying on me or whatever, they're violating my privacy or freedom, the government should be stopping that, just like if somebody was trying to physically harm me or to kill me or shoot me. The government should step in and do something about them. That's why we theoretically have a government.

And yet they don't. Instead, they partner with them. And they encourage that. And that's the thing that I think people need to start to set up and pay attention. to. And people are starting to pay attention to the flock camera now as well. As well, they ought to. I mean, my God, even the word itself, it's, it's, you know, it's insulting. Isn't it flock? As in a herd of sheep, as an animal. Right? That's right. They tell us something, what they have in mind. It's, it's just vile on so many levels. And I think that the time has come to push back. You know, ordinarily, I'm somebody who's very much a respecter of property rights. And, you know, if we don't have privacy, we have nothing. We have nothing. We're not free.

You know, they're creating a system in which we were all presumptively guilty. You know, in prison, prison, you know, the term panopticon really actually at one time referred to a kind of ideal prison, the panopticon, where inside the prison, everybody in the prison would be monitored all the time. And the authorities within the prison would know exactly what each prisoner was doing all the time. That's right. Okay. They're in there because they're criminals.

You know, just, okay, so that makes some sense. I don't like the idea that we're all to be considered presumptively criminal. Everything has been upended in this country. It used to be this idea that you had to have done something as an individual. you specifically. Minimally, you had to have given some specific probable cause for there to be an investigation. You know, for a cop to look at you, you had to have done something to give him, well, there's something not right. That guy's doing something that suggests to me he may be involved in some kind of criminal activity. Fine. I don't have an issue with that. I don't think anybody has an

issue with that. I do have an issue with essentially having to prove that I didn't do something. That's right. That's right. In my article, I just cited a couple of examples. One was this poor woman, you know, here's a knock at the door. She goes to answer the door and it's a cop there, a very aggressive cop who starts accusing her of stealing packages from people's doors because he says the flock cameras saw her vehicle, you know, in the vicinity of where these packages were stolen. And she had nothing to do with that. She didn't do it. Nonetheless, this cop is accusing her. And she ended up having to not only deal with this belligerent, aggressive cop, ultimately she had to spend her time proving that she was innocent using her own camera. She happened to have one in her car,

thank God. So she could prove, you know, that it was not her. But this is where we're at now, where, you know, the algorithm decides you've done something and then they sick the cops on you. And I've seen several cases of that. You know, people who were arrested, people, one guy spent like 50 days in jail. They wouldn't believe him. He was in a different state when all this stuff happened. And they wouldn't accept any proof from him because, hey, the computer said that you are that person.

So we're going to trust the computer. But you know, Eric, what you're talking about was something that was mentioned in one of the communities where they were pushing back against the fly cameras. And the guy was saying, you know, we have this situation. We're all considered to be terrorists and we're all guilty until we somehow prove that we're innocent. I thought, well, where did that come from? It sounds like TSA, doesn't it?

It was not even harder than that. I've been riding a body horse, whacking the pinata, whatever you want to call it, for a long time. I objected when they first rolled out these DWI checkpoints, the variety of checkpoints. Because in my opinion, that was the first modern test case of this idea that people are to be treated as presumptively guilty of something. They did it in the name, and it was just a very emotionally difficult to argue against thing. Because, oh, my gosh, nobody likes the drunk driver who blows through the red light and kills the family, right? Very hard. You put yourself in the position, oh, you're defending drunk drivers.

No, I'm defending our right to not be presumed to be. a drunk driver simply because I'm driving. The fact that I happen to be driving doesn't mean I'm drunk. Nonetheless, people have gotten used to that idea that you have to disprove that. You have to establish to the satisfaction of a cop that you're not drinking. And meanwhile, you know, he's checking out your car, making sure your papers in order and all this other stuff. Well, that began in the 80s, as you know. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So once that became precedent, that's how case law works, precedent. So once the precedent was established, it really wasn't that much of a leap, you know, once we had 9-11 for, you know, people to be treated as presumptive terrorists at the airport and have to,

you know, prove to the satisfaction of another government agent that, you know, you're not actually trying to board the plane to hijack it. That's right. And if you've got a line of people, because they've got a traffic stop here where they're doing a sobriety test or whatever, and you don't want to wait in that line, so you turn around and you go, they're going to come after you, right? And that's what we've just seen with the ICE situation. We've had a couple of situations where people have been killed in the last couple of weeks. And for the most part, it's because they're looking at these masked agents and their reputation of brutality and intimidation and confrontation. So they decided I'm going to run for it, right? And that is a license for them to kill, they think. And so we've had

a situation, several of these situations with that. And I keep telling everybody, look, the most dangerous situation you got is not a terrorist or a drunk driver or an illegal immigrant who has come in from another country that's criminal. The worst case scenario is a criminal government that terrorizes its own citizens and does so with impunity. That is the worst case scenario. That's what we have to guard against number one before we even worry about genuinely criminal illegal aliens, but in a lot of cases, they're going after people who basically didn't file paperwork. They've lived peacefully in law-abiding citizens. Maybe they voted and they shouldn't have voted.

But the bottom line is, you know, this is like not having car insurance or something, right? It's a technical foul kind of an offense. There's this kind of false, fatuous idea that you can eliminate all risk. And of course you can't. No matter what happens, there's always going to be something that can happen. So the question becomes one of balance. You know, do we want to treat everybody as a criminal? because there are some criminals.

Yeah. I'd rather just, you know, have, of course, you know, occasionally you're going to have a guy who's drunk and blows through light and kills people. That's going to happen no matter what, even with these drunk driving laws. That's right. That's right. Yeah. It continued on even after they had the traffic stops and all the rest of the stuff. So there isn't, it's not a perfect world.

And they're not going to be able to catch everybody. But it's the same type of thing we see. We've got to protect the kids. So everybody's going to have an ID to get on the internet. They go to the worst case scenario. They use a maximum amount of force. The interaction that they have is totally disproportionate to the crime that they have. And that's the key thing when we look at it.

And it's only going to get worse because when we look at these flock cameras, I'm not sure if you're aware of it or not. But now the latest thing is that they, you know, we talk about flock being a bunch of sheep. And that's true, but it can also be a bunch of birds, right? Well, now they've got flying cameras. They're going to have drone swarms. And that's the latest thing for the police departments to get into is flying surveillance cameras.

Yeah, I take a little bit of pleasure in reading news stories about these guys who are going out there with saws-s-s-all, you know, and taking down the flock cameras. But the fact is that we could easily end up with a scenario as depicted in the movie adaptation of Orwell's 1984, the one with John Hurt that you might remember. It vividly portrayed this world in which even walking down a path in the woods was brought with peril because they had integrated the cameras and the microphones into the trees and the plants. You never knew when you were being listened to and observed. So the response of these people is going to be, well, we can't have these things obviously on polls anymore. So we're just going to hide them. They'll never know where they are.

They'll just know they're watch. And welcome to East Germany. All of a sudden, we are literally living. in East Germany where you're under constant 24-7 surveillance. And they'll have accepted it, I guess, because they think, oh, we're being kept safe. It's horrible. That reminds me of Patrick McGuwen's the prisoner.

I'm sure you know about that, right? Yeah. And when I saw that, you know, back in the 60s, I thought, wow, that's just over-the-top insane. And very crude compared to, you know, production values, but it still works very effectively. And that's really where we are right now. You know, the statues have eyes and everything's got a camera

and everything is watching you constantly, piping it back to the control center where they're going to pay special attention to anybody that doesn't tow the line. Yep, including in your car. You know, that Waymo that we were talking about earlier, there were a couple of teenage boys in the car, and they were doing what teenage boys do.

You know, they went out and they got some booze and they got some water pistols. And they were, you know, being driven around in the Waymo car squirting people with their squirt guns. You know, harmless teenager stuff. Anyway, the car, you know, has cameras and it was watching them do this. Oh, yeah.

And so, you know, once it... People are watching them do that, yeah. Yeah. So once it realized they were, were doing something bad. That's when, you know, the car got triggered. And that's when, and I don't know whether it actually locked them in, but it did, it did, some of the cops, and it went to a parking lot and it shut down. And then the cops came. Well, it's not just the Waymo cars. You know, that's private property. And I guess Waymo can put cameras in its cars if it wants to.

You know, that sort of analogous to if you go into a store and they have security cameras there because they've got to deal with shoplifters. I don't have an issue with that. But your car, it's your property, at least nominally. You bought it. You paid for it, right? And now you're watched inside your car. And somebody else is watching you. And, you, You know, keeping track of what you're doing. And if you do something they don't like, then they are going to intervene. And that's where we're headed. You know, I think, especially when we look at these humanoid robots that they want to use as your own personal C3PO, right?

There's one company called Neo, and it's got this nice soft surface. They cover it, instead of it being hard plastic or something, they cover it in like a wolf sock or something. So it's got a couple of holes there like eyes. And they were just, they just released a new update to the hands. And they were showing how the hands were very, very delicate. They could do all types of things, you know, hold a very delicate martini or something like that. At one point, it unzips the zipper on somebody's jacket. And a guy who was looking at it made a comment that said it's kind of inappropriate for them to kind of with some sexual overtones because he's got this jazz music in the background.

He goes, because the reality is they've already told people that these robots that they're putting in your house, they don't think on their own. They're going to be controlled by people who are watching you, let's say in India, maybe. maybe, you know, or some other place where they can get cheap labor. But there's human beings who are using this thing to walk around and look at your house. That's a big issue. And so he made it about that. And the person said, how dare you, you know, mock the fact that we have this very dexterous hand that we have created here and everything.

And what a perverted take on it. It's like, well, the perverted take is that you would put this robot in somebody's house and you would sit to spy on them and follow them around the house. I wonder how far this will go. A lot of people are kind of creeped out by the flock cameras and the ring cameras. Yet they fill their houses with these smart devices that have to. cameras and microphones. I wonder how they'll feel when the time comes that they start putting cameras and microphones in their bathroom. Yeah. That's right. You know, so that some person in

Mumbai can watch what goes on in the bathroom and the bedroom. Will they be awful with that too? Well, we've had issues of that where somebody has some of these glasses like Meta is selling and somebody sets the glasses down and then, you know, the wife comes in and gets ready for bed or something, you know, and there's somebody watching this in India, you know, the whole time. And it's not theoretical. I mean, they've done this over and over again. We actually joke about it when they say AI, it sometimes means actually Indians that are looking at this stuff because they did that.

You had, what was it, Whole Foods, I think, was pushing the idea that you just put stuff in your shopping cart and the AI cameras are just going to total the stuff up in real time and you just put everything in there and walk out and we'll charge it to you. Well, it turned out that it was just a whole bunch of people in India that were busy, you know, totaling

this stuff up as they watched what you were doing. It's just absolutely remarkable that people are willing to buy into this stuff. But it's happened so fast. I think there's also sort of a whiplash factor. You know, the flock and the ring things, people have to get their head around and realize what's going on. An aspect of this that's interesting to me is that it's a tool, right?

And any tool can be used for good things or bad things. And the problem we have is that people are sometimes bad. So you put this tool in the hands of authoritarian types like cops. There have been already a bunch of instances of cops who want to stalk women. They see someone that they're interested in. And they, you know, they go through the flock camera, find out where she lives, find out where she works, where is she going. I mean, it's like a serial killer's, you know, fantasy land.

And the idea that somehow you're going to prevent that kind of power from being misused is infantile. You know, you just simply have to blank check saying, no, you can't use this at all, period. That's right. Because precisely because it is inherently abusive. It's not that it can be abused. It's inherently abusive. Yeah, we get stars in our eyes because of the technology that's involved. And it's like, oh, this is like Jets and stuff.

It's like, let's go back to human nature, right? And that was the type of approach that when we talk about the, the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, they understood what human nature was about. They understood how the power and the money of political office would always corrupt people. And so they said, let's play these different power groups off against each other. And yet we have gotten past that. And they have worked out over the last 250 years how to consolidate their power and to get rid of those checks and balances. And it's a very dangerous situation.

What you're talking about in terms of cops stalking people. I covered that this last week. There was a particular case that was very egregious down in Florida. And there was a cop who, if you've ever been down to Florida, keys, they've got a very, very long, narrow bridge that's down there. And so he met somebody when he was working in a security detail, and they were doing a TV program. He liked her. And so he starts stalking her, and he gets her information and he puts her in the hot list for flock. He thought she was hot, so he put her in the list. And that way, he gets ID wherever she is and

wherever she moves. And he used that to track her down. And he nearly had several head-on collisions in terms of other cars as he is doing wild maneuvers to try to get around the cars between him and her, so he could pull her over. Yeah, you may have heard the other thing that happened a few days ago. There was a guy who does what I do. He writes and reviews new cars, and he happened to be driving a Land Rover, I think it was. And he got pulled over, you know, on a false stolen car report that Flock had put out, apparently. And I think it was a gun pound point.

So, you know, this guy, he's just driving a press vehicle like I drive press vehicles. And all of a sudden he finds himself surrounded by a bunch of, you know, trigger-happy cops. You know, we're thinking he's some kind of, you know, armed and dangerous felon. And I worry about that in the cars that I drive have funky plates. If you've ever seen the manufacturer attacks, they're, you know, they're, they're, they're sort of odd alpha numerical, not like normal plates. Sometimes they'll say manufacturer on it. And I can see that that might, you know, cause the flock camera to get triggered. And then all of a sudden it sends out, you know, the alert.

And all of a sudden you find yourself staring down the, you know, the wrong end of a Glock. It's just not good. Well, it can get worse. I mean, they can send out Ed 209 to, uh, from Robocop, right? To pull you over. And that's not too far away, I guess. The Robocop actually was benevolent, though. The thing I think we're headed toward is a Judge Dredsenario.

Remember that movie? That's right. And the law. You know, that's the kind of thing that we're facing right now. And when I look at what he's doing, what Trump is doing with the ICE agents, that's basically what I see about all this stuff. He cheered Robert Duterte in the Philippines when that was exactly what Robert Duterte was telling his police force to do.

He said, if you see somebody, you think they're part of the drug trade, you have a, you have authority to kill them. And so they did a lot of extrajudicial killings. And he is now before the international criminal court because the next administration that came in, gave him up. I think that's perhaps what Rubio and some of the other people in the Trump regime are thinking about with this is like, hey, they could impeach us and kick us out of office. The other thing they could do is they could hand us over to the ICC because they have

committed international war crimes, no doubt about it. Plant the seed in our homeland boys, let it grow where all can see. Feed it with our devotion boys. Call it the liberty tree. It's a tall old tree and the strong old tree. And we are the sons, yes, we are the sons, the sons of liberty. It's your move. You're listening to the David Knight Show.

These things are consequential. You know, a lot of Americans were cheering, you know, before this awful war started, these images of the American military killing people extrajudicially out on the, you know, the open sea, allegedly because they were, you know, smuggling drugs, even in the most egregious case where they had disabled the boat and these guys are bobbing in the water helplessly. and they go and kill them. That is like war crime, even if it was a war, that is a war crime condemned by the Pentagon, condemned by the Geneva Convention, international law, you name it.

That's always a crime. And even if, this is like a cynical point of view, even if you don't particularly care about the horror of people being murdered in that manner, which is what it was, a precedent. You let that stand and you think that somehow the power isn't going to be turned on you at some point. That's right. And that is the danger. And unfortunately, not enough people in this country see it or understand it. Well, certainly again, we go back to the founders, Madison did.

He said the instruments of war brought will be used as a means of tyranny at home. And that's what's happening with this flying swarms of drones that are out there. They should call it Skynet, I guess. They call it Skydeo. Or maybe you could call it, you know, I don't know. I've got a lot of things I could call it about. I can't say what radio. This is like a whole rabbit hole discussion, but it's interesting about predictive programming.

Do you remember the original Terminator that came out in 1984? So that's a long time ago, you know, like 40 hours ago. And if you go back and watch that movie and look at the AI, driven flying things that the machines we're using to kill the humans, they're very much like the drones that we have now. Oh, yeah. Yeah, absolutely are. Yeah, the people are doing that Skydeo thing, they were using that for military purposes. And now they're going to use it to spy on Americans for the police state. That's how this goes. And so there is a war against us and a war against the constitution. And they consider us all to be their enemies domestically. They are practicing this

stuff abroad, but they're bringing it home now. And the same thing is true, a Palantir. Palantir is famously about that started that way, working with military. Now they're coming back to tie all the different places that they've got data silos together. They're going to get rid of all those and make one gigantic database. Did you catch Tucker Carlson's interview with Mike Adams the other day? It's really good. He made an observation that I thought was very trenchant. And it is that these people, meaning the people in the corporations and the government,

it's not just that they're lying to us and seeking to exploit us. They hate us. They actively seek the arm and it's extremely important to, get your mind around that, to understand the mentality that we're dealing with. You know, it's not just the Shady used car salesman who's trying to sell you a lemon and pocket some money. It's somebody who is sadistic, who hates you, who wants to hurt you. Recognize that.

Understand that. That's what we're up against. That's right. Yeah, I had a friend who worked for the government. He was high ranking in the military. And I would have those discussions with him. I knew him from high school. And he said, well, you know, you never attribute malice to somebody if you explain it by incompetence.

It's like, well, I don't necessarily buy that. You might want to believe what they say when they are. saying some malicious things about how they want to harm people, how they want to depopulate the world and all the rest of the stuff, they refer to us as viruses, you name it. We've seen the animosity from these people over and over again. Just take a look at the world economic forum. I mean, it just drips with contempt for humanity. My most recent article, which touches on this business of the, as they put it,

a speed limit assistance technology. The story broke originally, I think, in the UK Guardian, an EU apparatchik, a bureaucrati within the EU regulatory regime said, you know, all along, this has been about making it so that cars can't be driven any fast. than we decree that they are going to be allowed to drive. We do it incrementally. I'm kind of paraphrasing here, but words to that effect. So, you know, first of all, they use mental judicious,

etymological jiu-jitsu. They call it assistance, which makes it sound benign. Oh, we're just helping you, right? But I thought about that. You know, they get people used to the initial phase, I call it first base. First base is when you get a chime and you get a little light that lights up in the dashboard.

Oh, helpie, Helperson, you're driving faster than the speed limit. We just wanted to let you know. So you can slow down. The next thing, second base, which is already required in Europe, is throttle pushback. So if you go faster than whatever the speed limit is, you're pushing on the gas pedal, I felt this, I've experienced it. It pushes back against you to prevent you driving.

You can still push through it. You just have to push down harder. And then you can override. Third base is when you can't do that anymore. And the guy was admitting that that's been the agenda all along, that they understood that they couldn't roll it out all at once because frog in the boiling water, they get people used to it.

But this is the end goal. This is where we're headed ultimately. Well, I think ultimately, they're not just going to control how fast you go, but where you can go. They're going to geofense areas away from you. And we've already seen that in a crude way. They've already started with their 15-minute cities. And you look at the U.K., places like Oxford and so forth, they put up bollards and things to block the road off.

So people have to take the circuitous route. And they're only allowed to, if they get out of their little village that they're put into, like Patrick McGowan. And if they can get out of their little confines, like once a month or something like that. But, you know, so we'll give a little bit of a pressure valve for now, right? But eventually that's going to go away as well. It's kind of like what the cities, let's see, what was it, there was a group of C40, that was what it was. It was originally 40 cities. Now it's well over 100 that came together to limit people's use of all kinds of resources,

limit the kind of food that you have, limit the articles of clothing that you can get to like three a year, and to limit your travel on planes to make sure that once every three years you get a trip of 900 miles or less, that type of thing. Really draconian measures that they put on there. And so they're gradually rolling this stuff out, and there'll be some physical, barriers like they got in the UK, but eventually with the technology that they've got and making sure that you don't have access to something that doesn't have a literal governor on it, they'll be able to do all that stuff electronically. Yep. And electric vehicles are really the ideal vehicle for that purpose. Even though a gas engine car has electronica and it's connected, once you filled up the

tank, you have physical possession of the fuel in the tank. So at that point, unless they shut the car off, you have the ability to drive it, however far that gas will take you. Electric cars are quite different. They can send up an update over the air to reduce the driving range to whatever they want. They presented it, interestingly enough. I think you and I talked about this once before. A couple of years back, there was a hurricane that was bearing down on Florida. And Elon Musk, in his great benevolence, announced that he was going to have Tesla send out an update that would increase the range of the electric vehicles located in the path of the hurricane so that they could get out. And immediately in my mind, I thought, well, that's interesting.

If he can arbitrarily buy an update over the air increase the driving range, then he can do the reverse. You know, he could cut the range. He can turn it off entirely. So that's one of the things that EVs help to facilitate. Plus, you're tethered to this centralized control grid. I know I hear, you know, you can, yes, hypothetically, you can charge an EV using an off-the-grid solar system. It's very expensive. Most people can't do it.

You know, it's just not a practical thing. So you're tethered to this central grid in a way, you know, gas is much more decentralized than that. So that's, you know, there are lots of pieces to this, but that's part of the reason that they were pushing this electric vehicle stuff so hard. I agree. And you and I talked about it for the longest time. That's another reason why they want to get rid of diesel. It had nothing to find particular matter and the rest of that stuff. And everything due to the fact that diesel is very versatile and,

terms of the kinds of fuel that you can use. It doesn't have to be highly refined. And you can make some adjustments on your diesel. You can run it off of vegetable oil if you want to. And so they had to make sure that that didn't persist as well. Absolutely. Yeah. I mean, I think I mentioned to you before. I have an old diesel tractor. I don't even need a battery to start it. I can roll it down the hill and clutch start it. And then once it's running, it doesn't even need an alternator because there's no ignition system. Pure mechanical injection, compression, ignition. That's it. So, you know, it's remarkable how simple it is and how durable it is. I mean, heck, I, I, I got it from the guy who I bought my house from 20 years ago, he owned it for, you know,

the prior more than 20 years. It's still running great. It'll probably be running 20 years from now, too. Yeah, yeah, they're very durable, aren't they? Speaking of durable, you've got an article about Mitch McConnell, the dirty turtle and the proof of life. Isn't that amazing that they were able to keep this secret for so long? And, you know, I think they're going to be able to run the clock out on this. They only have to keep him hidden until August the 3rd, I think, and then they can't do anything about it in terms of special election because it's too close to the actual election at that point. That's an interesting aspect of it. But for me, the more interesting aspect is, The lying has gotten so, so blatant.

You know, you and I can remember, you know, they're going back to when we were young, that, you know, you had a suspicion, okay, the politicians are crooked, the government, you know, it's a little snaky. But the extent, the pervasiveness of the corruption now is so manifest. And this sizable notion of like, who is it, Thune, I guess, and some other big Republican honcho, claim that they, you know, they talked with the dirty turtle for 20 minutes. Oh, there's a whole list of people out there. And they all talk to him, Eric, for the same amount of time, 20 minutes.

Thomas Massey mocked them. He said, yeah, we talked for 20 minutes. And he said, we got to stop this war. We got to do this. You know, and so it was real things that, of course, Mitch McConnell would never be in favor of. And they don't even take the effort to produce a believable AI photo. No. They bring out a picture of him looking at least 10 years younger and a lot healthier.

And he looked at the last time anybody saw him, you know, sitting chipperly in his hospital bed, you know, wearing his jeans and his plaid shirt. It's absurd. Yeah, yeah. No IVs, no nothing. He doesn't have a monitor on his finger checking his pulse. Nothing like that. And, of course. A couple of days ago when they took the picture, why isn't he out on the center floor voting

for whatever legislation is on the floor. That's right. It's just absolutely amazing. And yet they, they, uh, be clowned themselves. We saw this all happening a year ago when they were trying to hide all the Epstein documents as well. Look at how you had Mike Johnson shut down, uh, the house, um, a couple of weeks early before they take the entire month of August off.

And then during that period of time, they had special election. And, uh, there were now enough votes to ram this thing through. And he refused to seat the person who was having the, you know, the special election that ever and the Congress was, uh, shut down by him, even though they have always operated in the passed when they had a shutdown over the budget disagreement. He shut down the Congress to keep everybody out of that. And yet it still didn't work. And everybody just saw the corruption, but they're doing it again now with Mitch McConnell. It's certainly is amazing. I think it's a good thing. In a backhanded kind of way, I'm going to compliment Trump for the same reason.

He has made it very plain to any thinking person that we're not going to vote our way out of this. The whole system is lousy with termites and maggots and there's just no fixing it. And that's a good thing in a way because ultimately the government does have to rely upon the consent of the governed. order to continue to govern. And I think that's gone with the wind now at this point. You know, I feel as though we are sort of in this moment that might be analogous to roughly 1774-ish, you know, back during the colonial era, when at that time, if you go back and read the history of the era, they were desperately pleading with the British king in parliament, you know, for some kind of accommodation, you know, let's be reasonable. You know, let's address our concerns. Come on,

we really don't want to fight. You know, we would just like to be peaceful and resolve this. Then came by, Stanton and Concord, and they finally recognized there was no. That's right. No matter how many entreaties they made to him, he just gave from the back of his hand. And that's what we're getting from the federal government now, isn't it? And I think that's the moment that we're in right now. I think the realization has on that this is not something that can be addressed in the manner that we've been used to for generations longer than we've been alive. You know, go to the ballot box. You vote. You bring in a candidate, you know, all that Norman Rockwell stuff. That's out the window. That's gone. Something is

coming. It understands that. And so the question is now, how are we going to manage what's coming? I think it's very interesting because, you know, you look at what happened with the pandemic and the arbitrary lockdown of everybody and pushing these vaccines and masks and all the rest of the stuff. And we now see what an incredible fraud that was, right? And so it is really blown back against them in a number of ways. A lot of people have seen what was really happening in their child's classroom, let's say, for example. So we've seen a lot of pushback against that. We've seen a big increase in number of people leaving the government schools and doing homeschooling and things like that. That was always one of their biggest arguments. Well, what about socialization?

It's like, yeah, tell me about socialization when you put masks on the kids and you make them stay six feet apart from each other. So, you know, they jump the shark on that aspect. And now you got Trump and the Republicans and jump in the shark on the Epstein documents. on Mitch McConnell and somebody. They have shown themselves to be absolute pants on fire, liars. And I think that is the good news that comes out of this is that people are seeing that the emperors have no clothes. They have no integrity.

And they wouldn't tell you the truth, even if it was in their best interest to tell you the truth. No, not at all. And I think things are probably going to get very interesting in the next few weeks as this stupid evil war continues. You know, I'm not an expert in this area, but my understanding based upon people who I know are experts is that the SPR, you know, the Petroleum Reserve is empty or very close to it. Trump has been using that to kind of buffer the price shocks that have arisen as a result of this war in the closing of the Strait of Hormuz. Now he thinks he can sort of like, you know, go and bomb the Iranians back to the peace table.

It's not going to happen. No, it's not. The Iranians are not going to buckle on this. And my understanding is that the whole reason for the memorandum of understanding for that two-week pause in the war was that somebody finally got through to Trump and said, look, if you don't put a halt to this, the global economy is probably going to crash. That's right. We're going to have massive economic and then political problems in this country. You've got to find a way to walk it back, declare victory and go home. So hence the M-OE.

Well, now we're back. And now what's he going to do? Now he's really gone full, like what was the William Westmoreland, Vietnam, we're just going to keep on throwing more bombs out of them and, you know, hope we're going to win. It's a disaster. And right now everybody's kind of not talking about it, which is strange because it's getting hotter and worse all the time. And very probably we're going to be back at $4 a gallon gas by the end of next week. Yeah.

Well, they just get acclimated to things, right? And it doesn't really affect them. They can't look at the long-term picture. It's just, you know, I'm very busy with what I do and I've got a job and I've got kids and so forth and so on. I don't have time to really look at this from a long-term perspective or to think about what is going to happen down the road. I'm just dealing with this on a day-to-day basis. We saw that all throughout the 2020 nonsense that they're pulling on people. And that's what we're seeing again today, I think.

100%. Yeah. But it'll hit when people can't fill up or they can't afford to fill up. And there's no oil. And as you pointed out, yeah, there was a lot of talk about that. People getting together with him and saying, look, we only got a couple of more weeks left of this. There was a lot of stuff that was already out there on the water and you've been using that stuff up as well as the stuff that's in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. So many times you talk to people about this stuff

And we talked about the effects of tariffs Which are nothing other than taxes And of course it's going to raise the price of stuff And it's amazing to me to see all these Republicans out there And naively saying, well, no, no, he's going to be able Just get this money from other people And nothing is going to change in terms of what we pay for stuff That's like the idea that Democrats have

That they're going to be able to tax companies If you raise a tax on a company They're going to have to pass that along to you in their product Or they're going to go out of business They don't operate, most companies don't operate on such large profit margins. And so they can absorb that for a short period of time and will absorb it for a short period of time because they don't want to be the first one to raise prices and put themselves at what they perceive to be a competitive disadvantage. But eventually reality will require that they

raise the price. And so we started seeing that. It was delayed. And then once that happens, there's also a delay when it comes back down again typically. But what Trump is doing is he's exploiting this manic and it really is kind of bipolar of the stock market. It's amazing to me how many times he can go out and say something and then reverse himself that same day. And show that he was never serious about it. And everybody knows that. I mean, Emmanuel Macron has called him out on it. His political opponents have called him out on it. And nevertheless, Wall Street still trades on whatever he has to say. They treat as if it is the gospel truth when he wouldn't know the truth if it bit him in the leg. But it's, that's the reality

of what's happening right now is that these people are just trading on opium. And right now, the market is irrationally exuberant. There's going to come a point in time which becomes irrationally pessimistic. And that's when things get really bad for everybody. I agree. There's corruption without consequence. You know, that's the thing. that runs through everything. These people, you know, some of them know that what they're doing is deleterious and is going to hurt people, but it's abstract. They don't care because it doesn't hurt them.

And look at Trump, Trump's an archetype. He's a guy who's a billionaire. Most of the people in the higher echelons of the federal government are very, very affluent people. You know, they're the ones who are profiting from the stock market. I'm, you know, probably not coming across right now as a communist, but it's the truth. You know, they are profiting from this, this greasy casino that we call the stock market.

That's right. And rich, they don't care that a pat of butter costs $7. If you have a billion dollars in your net worth, of course not. It's an abstract to them. They have no comprehension or understanding or caring or empathy at all for the plight of average people for whom, you know, paying $8 for a dozen eggs, that's a really big deal for a lot of people. You know, have to spend $70 to fill up your gas tank. That's a big deal for, you know, a lot of people.

There's this complete disconnect between us and them at this point. And you'll go back to 2020 and all they cared about were the big box retailers that trade on Wall Street, right? Mom and pop stores close them. We don't care. People will have empty shelves while on the farms they're destroying the food because they can't get it to market. We don't care. Right. And it really is a, you talked about maliciousness earlier on.

And I think that is really the case with this. I don't think it's just incompetence. I think that there is a, I think Trump is their guy to push us into a fourth turning. And I don't know if we've talked about this or not, but I talk about it frequently on the show. The idea that every 80 years, there is a massive sea change in society. And that's the point in which we are right now. And so within the next couple of years, that's going to happen. They wanted to have somebody in, in my opinion, like Trump, who is going to be an agent of chaos, who's going to be a disruptor, who is going to basically take things down as the World Economic Forum has been so eagerly seeing.

We want to have a great reset. Well, he's the guy to do it for you. He's going to create problems between every country in the United States. He's going to create wars. He's going to create a global depression. You name it. He's going to do all these things. I mean, look at this.

You remember the 1973 oil embargo. And I've been thinking about that ever since I saw what Trump did and the Strait of Hormuz getting shut down. That is a bigger shock to the system, the 1973 oil embargo. Now, we haven't felt it really yet. But it takes a while for these things to roll out. Oh, absolutely. And the thing that he has done is the most dangerous, in my opinion, is radicalizing the younger generations who understandably are both furious and feeling utterly disfranchised and helpless

about it. You know, just in my own ballot work with regard to cars, you know, when I was 25 years old, I was able to buy my transam. I had no problem filling the gas tank with unleaded premium when I was 25 years old. I can't, a middle-aged guy now and I can't afford to fill up the gas tank anymore. I put a half a tank in it. You know, the cars are now, the ladder has been. kicked out the young can't afford cars. I don't think it's an accident that Trump is not letting

these $10,000 little tiny cars in because that would bring the ladder back down. Houses. I read the other day that the average age of a first time home buyer in this country is now 40. So basically middle-aged guy. You know, people start families when they're used to in their 20s. They got married and get their first starter home when they're around 28, 29, 30 years old. Now they're 40. Yeah. And the average price of a house in this country is I think $400,000 now the average price. And what happened when they were talking about, oh, let's have something for housing affordability. And it wasn't housing affordability. It was just another version of, remember Trump said, well, let them have a 50-year mortgage or something. That doesn't help anybody.

That just helps the banks. And so they look at this and say, well, we'll make houses more affordable. What we'll do is we'll up the level of the limit right now. People are bumping up for the limit for FHA or something like that. So we'll raise that limit so they can borrow more money. That's not what we need. We need things that we can afford, not a longer credit term that they're putting out there because that's their orientation to help the bankers. And so, you know, when they come up with these funny solutions. But even with that, Eric, Trump comes out and says, I don't care about that. That's not important. Do the Save America Act about voting. That's the only thing I care about. I don't care about the housing stuff. He's like, yeah, we noticed. We noticed big time. So he's pushing people

towards communism, isn't he? Yeah, I mean, on multiple occasions, he's, he's publicly, he's publicly, he's, publicly said things, expressing contempt for average people's concerns. That's really well out there. You know, he's, he's, he's Maria, Marie Antoinette without her appealing qualities. And that's a serious thing. Marie Antoinette was a courtier. She was a woman who grew up in the court. She never knew anything about the outside world. She was an innocent in a lot of ways. You know, she lived in her side. And so from her point of view, you know, the story goes, you know, she heard that the peasants were having, they were starving because there wasn't enough bread. Well, and she looked around in the palace of Versailles. There's cake everywhere. Let them eat cake. She meant well.

Yeah. You know, she wasn't mean. She was like, well, surely they can eat cake, right? Yeah. Trump's far worse than that. Oh, he is. As a matter of fact, I chuckle when you you mentioned that, because I actually created a Marie Antoinette version of a fat Trump. He's in a dress with the whole bit. And, you know, saying basically the same thing, let them eat cake. And I forget what that was in response to, but it was over a year and a half ago. And it was something he did right away when he got in. But that's exactly where this guy is. He is a vicious Marie Antoinette.

And I can understand why these politicians are getting more and more increasingly paranoid about their own personal safety. And when you look at how he is building all this fortress around himself, hunkering down in a bunker, he's now got an anti-dron SUV that's supposed to provide security for him. Well, good luck with that. How does that work on the battlefield in Ukraine and Russia are going after each other? They're all vulnerable to that kind of stuff. He doesn't have any way to protect himself, really, from the new weapons that are out there. He's very vulnerable to that.

The best thing he could do for himself is the best thing he could do for us, and that is to pursue a path of peace without foreign entanglement. But they're doing exactly the opposite, aren't they? For a variety of reasons, he won't do that. I think right now one of the aspects of this is that he's so pathologically narcissistic. I think it drives him baddie that the Iranians haven't folded, that he hasn't been able to parade like MacArthur down the street, you know, with the laurels in his hair as the great warlord. Look, I defeated these awful Iranians. It sticks at his craw. So, enraged by that and this idea that he can't be perceived as a loser, which for him is the worst imaginable thing, he's going to drag the whole world down with him, I think.

I agree. I agree. When you look at, Ron Paul was just talking about how Trump is more of a socialist or he's going to say a fascist than Mamdani is because he's out there buying stock of all these different companies. He's put out like $30 billion to buy stock of 27 different companies. and they're actually buying stock in these companies and picking the winners and losers and investing in them, and that really distorts the marketplace. But it really is something, I think if you look at most of these deals, he's also cutting side deals on this. It's very much like what the Chinese Communist Party does.

And they really are fascist in their orientation. It's corruption so that the government is going to partner with you. You'll own it. Don't worry about that. You'll have some ownership thing there. But we will too. You're going to give us a take on this. You're going to give us a cut.

And that's what he's doing with his open corruption of his family. All of these things, that really does feed the narrative for the socialist and the communists. They want to portray this two-tier class system. And so he is feeding that on steroids. And we're going to wind up with a very radical left-wing government because of Trump. He's pushing people out. How the recently fired factory worker who's living in his single-wide in West Virginia perceives the news that Baron Trump, who's just barely 20 years old, is worth $150 million, as a result of the schistrism of the Bitcoin thing, the crypto scam.

Yeah, his main coins, yeah. Yeah, $150 million his kid is worth, having produced nothing just because his father is in a position to manipulate markets and help his family make a lot of money doing it. That's right. Yeah, they've made billions off of these coin things, but the people who have invested in these things, somebody totaled it up, and it was something like $50 billion they've ripped people off for these meme coins. It truly is amazing. It's actually, and by some metrics, it's actually worse than what Sam Baintman-Fried did, right? Absolutely. It really is. But, of course, the other part of it is that he will not be punished. And that really does pour gasoline on the dumpster fire of the Trump administration,

doesn't it? Yeah, and of course, nobody responsible for what went on during the four horrible years of COVID has been brought to justice. Not a single one. You know, Fauci is enjoying his comfortable and very affluent retirement. Wellensky, you know, and then you go down the ladder to the state level. Not one of these people has been so much as fined for the horror that they imposed on this country for four years. And I think there's percolating fury out there about it. I know I'm furious about it.

I'm not prepared to forgive and forget. Well, the reality is there's a lot of people who lost family members who were literally killed in the hospitals, as one doctor pointed out. They were killing fields. They were deliberately killing people. They were denying basic treatment to people to say, I only want the COVID patients. Why? Because Trump is paying them a 20% bonus for the COVID patients, as well as a lump fee of like a $13,000. If you point your finger somebody and say they got COVID. Then you get 20% for everything that you do for them.

So they don't want anybody in the hospital, but it's not sick with what they can claim is COVID. So they were killing people by refusing medical treatment. And if they get you in the hospital, they kill you with a ventilator of Rimdesivir. And so there's a lot of families out there. Many of them don't really understand that that's what happened. Many of them think that their family members died of COVID or something unrelated. but eventually they're going to start catching on to that. And that's really where the warm is going to turn, I think.

I think everybody understands what was done, though, to families and friendships, to a good feeling that existed before COVID. Now, they turned us against each other, you know, masks versus non-maskers, the vaccinated versus the unvaccinated. You know, that created a nation of sadism out of what was once a country full of good and decent people. And it's horrendous and it has got to be dealt with. You know, it has to purge. And until that happens, you know, things are.

not going to get better, in my opinion. I agree. Yeah, there's that festering thing there, that the elephant in the room, if you will. And part of it is this cult of Trump. They don't want to lay that at his door. And so, you know, they want to pretend that it was all Fauci, for example. And, you know, he mentioned a lot of people that were there that are all guilty with that. But of course, there's also the people in the Trump administration. He began by putting in Alex Azar, who was a former CEO of Eli Lilly. This thing was set up from the very beginning. It wasn't a, oh, I'm reacting to some news that I got here and I had the wrong reaction. I did the wrong thing. No, they planned this. They planned this. They practiced it for over 20 years. They

started two months before 9-11. This thing was a long time of the making. And Trump was their ace in the hole. He was the guy they could put in there to pull this thing off. Can you imagine Hillary Clinton trying to do something like this? No, and that's the genius of it. It took me a while to get my mind around it. But I really believe now. I believe that the whole thing was orchestrated. I think that Trump was in on the 2020 thing, that he could be portrayed as a martyr. Oh, look how they corrupted the election. And then we got Joe Biden. You know, Trump was wronged by the election. And then you get you Biden pushing the LGBT

stuff, the trannies in the classroom, you know, just really obnoxious to normal people's sensibilities things for years. Then Trump comes riding in on his white charger. I'm going to, you know, they'll be justice. I will write the wrongs. And they even set up I know I'm going to really go off the deep end here. They set up that thing in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Oh, I agree. I absolutely agree. You know, I'll tell him again. Look, they're trying to kill him. And it worked beautifully. So they bring Trump in, you know, everybody's ecstatic, a feeling relief, at least a lot of people who voted for him. Oh, good. You know, things are going to go on the right track again at last. And they brought in this guy who's the perfect stalking horse, the perfect guy to bring in everything that neither Hillary or Biden could ever have done. As you know, point out, all this stuff with ICE, all the stuff

with the tech pros, the Palantier. You know, it's like Trump had that meeting with these, with Altman and the other guy, Ellison and the other guy for the Chinese guy, I can't remember his name, a couple of days after his inauguration. Right there, what's all about, you know, erecting the surveillance state? Because they knew that for the most part, all the red hats would be quiet and quiescent. Trump's our guy. You know, we don't have to worry about Trump. You know, we don't have to worry about Trump and look at what's happening to us. That's right. And the guy used to work for, Alex Jones and Mike Adams, who I guess was just on with Tucker Carlson. They were pushing this pandemic because they were making money hand over fist,

selling prepper food and all the rest of this stuff. And he sold the lies that this is all a 40 chess and trust the plan. It's a sting and all the rest of the stuff. And don't worry, the vaccine. It's basically sugar water. It's not the bad Bill Gates vaccine. This is the Trump vaccine. And you can trust that. I mean, I've seen this type of thing. And these people, again, I think they were a long-term plant as well, in my opinion, when I look at this, because you've got to get people, they're going to run a long con. The purpose is to get people's confidence, right? You've got to trust them.

You've got to trust the plan. And the reality is that the plan was to get you to trust them. That was it all along. But, yeah, I think it's at the point where things are really coming to a head. And it's going to be, this fourth turning is really going to come into place in 2029, 2030. They want to have their new, idealic dystopia that we look at it. You know, they think it's utopia for them. But that's when they want to have their smart cities and all the rest of this stuff.

2030 is the date. They keep putting on all this stuff. And that just coincidentally is the end of the fourth turning when you look at these typical cycles. So I think they've got to catch stuff up. So we're going to see things changing very, very rapidly for the worst, I think, in the next couple of years. It's going to be a rough ride, I think. But, you know, it's not all dark and dreary.

No, we have power. And the biggest power that we have is to disconnect from them. First, mentally, psychologically, recognize these people are not going to come save us. And we should look to them for saving. We should look to ourselves. We should look to our families, our friends, the people that we know. In other words, the people that we can trust because they have to trust. Because we know them.

They have a track record. And don't buy a connected car. Don't buy a car with cameras in it. It's fine. Don't equip your home with smart technology. Say no to these things. The more of us that do that, the more power we get back.

I absolutely agree. And that really is what you need to have, even if we had some kind of a natural organic disaster or something, let's say we just had a natural disaster. What do you need for that? You don't need to depend on the government being there to help you. That didn't work out too well for the people here in North Carolina and Tennessee when you had the major floods coming through there.

The government came in and made things. worse. And so yeah, you need to have a local network of people that you trust, people that you know, and that's going to be necessary to just have basic life. And that's really the basis on which we build this all up. Having a community that's there, and, of course, as a Christian, that is really the basis of our life as well. And getting people together who are like-minded, people who have some skills and some abilities, that is really the key thing that's going to make the difference, I think. It's the proper kind of dependency. That word has gotten a bad name because it's used in context of government, where it is being dependent on government, being dependent on

government, being dependent on corporations. But we are interdependent. Children are dependent on their parents, but that's a benevolent relationship. That's right. We're dependent on our friends. You know, there are things that I know how to do that I can do for my friends and there are things I have no idea how to do that my friends can do for me. That is a positive kind of dependence. That's right. Jared Griffin made a comment one time when I was interviewing him and he said, we have to think, we're focused on individual liberty, but we have to think about the fact that we have to work collectively for individual liberty. And I think that's exactly right. You know, certainly the founders worked collectively for individual liberty. They didn't go out there,

atomized 101 Thomas Jefferson go against the British troops on his own. They organized and they had a plan and they had a group of people who were working collectively for their individual liberty. And I think that's really where we have to go.

I really agree with you on that. Yeah, cooperatively and non-coercorically. There's nothing wrong with collective action in that context. That's right. Well, Eric, it's always great talking to you. Thank you so much for joining us. Really do appreciate it.

And again, folks, check out his website. It's excellent. A lot of information. And it always is wonderful to get a perspective from somebody who understands liberty and understands mobility. And, of course, we didn't get to it, but you also have a lot of really fine articles about great cars and great motorcycles.

And a good deal of those are nostalgic as well because they're not making too many of those anymore. And so always enjoy your website. Again, it is Eric petersautos.com. Thank you so much, Eric. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. The common man.

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