The David Knight Show - INTERVIEW Abe-usive Relationship — Lincoln Laid the Foundation for Abusive Govt That's Reducing Us ALL Into Serfs & Slaves

Episode Date: December 20, 2023

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Happiness. We all know what it feels like, but sometimes it doesn't come easy. I'm Garvey Bailey, the host of Happy Enough, a new podcast from The Globe and Mail about our pursuit of happiness. We know people want to live more fulfilling and positive lives, but how do we actually do that? Is there a happiness code to crack? From our relationship with technology to whether money can really buy you happiness, we'll hear from both real people and experts to demystify this thing we're all searching for and hopefully find ways to be happy enough. You can find Happy Enough wherever you listen to podcasts. All right, and joining us now, I want to get him in before Christmas, is Eric Peters of epautos.com.

And we have so much car talk to talk about. It truly is amazing. But I want to begin with something else that you got at your site, Eric. And that is your story about this abusive relationship we're stuck in with the federal government. Tell us about that. The one that we've been in since 1865. That's right. That abusive relationship. If you leave, I'll kill you, as you point out. I used that graphic. It shows Abraham Lincoln and it has that caption, if you try to leave me, I'll kill you. And I thought that that was very succinct and very apt because it distilled the whole conflict into that witty little meme.

And that's exactly what it was all about. On the one hand, we have this cognitive dissonance in this country. On the one hand, kids are taught to revere the founding fathers. The founding fathers who seceded from Great Britain. that's right you said if you live this will kill you they said if you leave us we'll kill you as well but somehow when the southern states uh wanted to exercise the same prerogative they felt that they were no longer served by being part of this union just as the colonists thought they were no longer being served by being part of the british union and they wanted to separate themselves leave in other words from what they considered to be an

abusive relationship did uh exactly that he killed what's the estimate something around the order of half a million americans were killed yeah i thought it was kind of interesting they would they would they again do you believe these numbers exactly the same number of people north and south 300 000 each yeah of course that doesn't include civilian deaths but i think that's a cooked number anyway yeah and the point is you know lincoln uh as malcolm x i think said uh lincoln didn't free the slaves he enslaved us all that's right that's right i've said the way i put it i said he ended private slavery and he made us all slaves of the public slaves of the federal government that's really what happened with all of it and you know the other thing that's interesting you know we always want to they always

want to put this in the context of slavery to put it in the best possible light uh but you know the the northern soldiers didn't call um the southern soldiers didn't say slavers, you know, or didn't call them rage accusations of them being racist or having a white privilege or anything. They called them secesh. Yeah. They called them rebels. And so it was really about the secession. And, you know, Eric, I've mentioned this on my show. I probably never told you about it, but my brother-in-law went to Italy. My wife's family is

half Italian, and he went to Italy to study, and he learned Italian and met some relatives over there. And they gave him a diary that had been put together by an ancestor who fought with Garibaldi's army there. And that was a real eye-opener for me because I realized that Italy was going through a civil war in 1861 exactly as we were. And it wasn't over slavery. It was over the same thing that our war was ultimately about. And that was a fourth turning, going from an agrarian society to an industrial society.

And as part of that fourth turning, you had nation states that were being created everywhere. And so you had internal civil wars that were happening everywhere in Italy and Brazil and other places. As a matter of fact, Garibaldi had fought in Brazil. I think it was Brazil or Argentina. I always get those two confused.

Anyway, he had fought over there and then went to Italy to fight. So you had this type of, um, this thing, this consolidation because of industrialization, you had this consolidation of the nation state. You had different power centers now because of industrialization versus agrarian and that's what that war was really about uh

everywhere uh that it was happening but of course they they they spend this for their own particular purposes and uh i remember that uh thomas jefferson not thomas stonewall jackson um stonewall jackson said uh this is our second war of independence that's the way he saw it and that's exactly what it was you know people have a right to self-government and and we see this all the time you know we had ukraine said well we're going to secede from russia and then the people in crimea say well we want to stay with russia no you can't we're going to fight you and kill you you know and if do that, that type of thing. Any relationship that isn't consensual is ipso facto abusive, isn't it? That's right.

I mean, if you're compelled, if you're forced by threats of violence to remain in a relationship, I think by definition it's an abusive relationship. The left has been very successful in this etymological ledger domain of using words to change the way people think about things you know even you and i were just talking about this and we used to we used the term the civil war and that's right period term because it was not a civil war that's right it was an attempt by the southern states to secede which is a very different thing that's right the southern states were not attempting to to to occupy and control the north and to control the government of the whole they simply wanted to have their own government and their own country. And I think it's important to make that point. That's right.

Yeah. That is exactly what it's, it's a two, two groups of people fighting to control the same country. They, that's very different than saying we want independence and secession, but you know, as this is all ramping up, uh, and it is getting, uh, it is escalating and we see this i've said many times i think that uh they're setting up donald trump and i've set him up for quite some time to be the mason dixon line of our next civil war yeah it's it's horrific i i this morning i was struggling to even find the words uh after i read uh news about the uh the decision in colorado that

apparently is going to take Trump off the ballot in that state on the basis of his having been an erection, an insurrectionist, notwithstanding that he's not actually been formally charged or convicted. And I'm not carrying order for the orange man by any rights. I'm just pointing out this horrible winnowing that we're being kind of pushed down a cattle chute. What they're trying trying to do they accuse trump on the one hand of an insurrection and they're actually fomenting a real one yes because they're making people so angry and desperate you know they're the same affronters people who will constantly talk about our democracy and who then tell you who you're allowed to vote for now again i'm not carrying water for trump but if he's a popular candidate need people want to vote for him

okay uh and by taking him off the ballot if they're successful in doing that they're going to Now, again, I'm not carrying water for Trump, but if he's a popular candidate and people want to vote for him, okay. And by taking him off the ballot, if they're successful in doing that, they're going to enrage people. And it seems to me inevitable that there's going to be some kind of an incendiary response to this. And I think that that's what they want, frankly. And they continue to do this. I just talked earlier in the program about how they've now arrested a blaze photojournalist who was there years after this. They continue to expand this. And I think that that's a real insurrection against our Constitution and our form of government that the Biden administration continues to cast this net wider and wider.

There I came after Sam Montoya at Infowars and other reporters. Now they're coming after this guy, a bona fide photojournalist to attack and attack him over just being there. He didn't harm anything. He didn't interfere with anything. He's taking pictures as protected under the Constitution. And so they really do want to ramp this whole thing up. And we've got to be careful not to fall into that trap. That's one of the things, Eric, that I'm so concerned about, because you look at it, both the people who oppose Trump and the people who support Trump. What do you think is going to happen? Because one of those groups is not going to get their way.

And so whether he wins or whether he loses, you're going to have half of this country want to kill the other half of the country over Trump. That's really what we're looking at coming up in this next year. And they're egging it on you know the situation is very much analogous to what the situation was back in 1861 when you had this regional difference uh you know broadly brushed between north and south and you had two uh two mindsets two cultures two two societies that were at odds with one another and this was deflamed and pushed and it got to a certain point where the kinetic energy became unstoppable and events took their own course and that seems to be exactly what's happening right now with regard to what's going to happen over the course of the next 12 months and it's pretty scary and i just saw this thing from tucker carlson he and dan bongino are getting each other worked up and tucker carlson

these guys are your blood enemies no they're not the appropriate response is to debate this uh not to kill these people but they're escalating this they really want both sides want violence and they keep talking about blood you know and trump talking about migrants being uh blood poisoning or a poison in your blood you know and it's like no the person who put poison in our blood was you pal i mean it's astounding you know i have a number of friends including friends that i have been friends with since i was a teenager uh who adamantly will not deal with the business of trump pushing those drugs on people and and his action during uh the final year of his presidency it's as if that just doesn't matter it's as if you know in in four worlds 1984 crime stop you know when that when

that thought comes up they they just blank and shut down. I say, well, what about the bump stock business? What about the red flag laws? And it's just a boom, conversation over. You're not seeing the big picture of the 5D chess. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I know. I work for a guy that was always pushing that stuff. But yeah, that is the key thing, isn't it?

You know, this blind spot. And now they just shut it down. And I see that through all the press. I see it with Breitbart. I see it with World Net Daily. You know, all of these different, I call them the MAGA bird press. You know, you had the mockingbird press for the CIA. These are the people, the other side of the Hegelian project here that are just pushing

everything for Trump. They absolutely hate um the vaccine people like wayne allen but they just trump is your savior you know it won't say anything negative about him and we can see how that is happening to politicians who do oppose him but you know let's talk about what's going on with the climate stuff here you know jail time for operators of gas powered leaf blowers hedgers and mowersowers. And this is literally jail time. This is being pushed in Washington State, where else? And Al Gore said in 2015 that the deniers need to be punished

for violating his religion. And so they want criminal sanctions. And we've got a law that's going into effect this next year in California. They passed it in 2021, but it's going to go into effect this coming year to ban all leaf blowers and lawnmowers and weed trimmers. And so if you don't do that, what are they going to do to you? Well, the one in Washington state is going to go into effect in 2026. So we'll see this one in California is going to happen first.

But this is how desperate these people are. Any gasoline, diesel powered landscaping, other outdoor poweria is going to happen first but this is how desperate these people are any gasoline diesel powered landscaping other outdoor power equipment is going to be contributing to climate change and we're going to have to lock you up but you know this is an inevitability isn't it you know if you accept or if you let go on challenge the premise that there is a climate crisis i.e an existential threat you know a dire emergency and we're all going to die well then it follows doesn't it that you can't permit people to operate anything that produces carbon dioxide it's even going to get to the point i saw a news article about this earlier where they're starting

to worry about people breathing yeah you're exhaling carbon dioxide and you're contributing therefore to this climate crisis so you've got to get at the root of this you got to talk about the climate crisis which is a fraud. And if you spell that, then you can deal with this issue. But you cannot play their game by accepting their terms of the debate. That's right. And when we talk about it, I talk about both the pandemic thing and the climate thing. I call them MacGuffins.

It's like Hitchcock. The MacGuffin is just what motivates the characters, but you always got the same goal at the end of the line. And so we can't talk about the pandemic as being real or the virus as being real. And we just like, you know, we can't say, well, this is a better way to handle the real pandemic. And we can't talk about a better way

to handle the real emissions because you can't accept those false premises you're not going to win a debate if you let the other people set up a false foundation for that debate and you go along with that you're going to lose and so you got to stop talking about emissions because again this comes down to our breath and because this has been before the environmental movement even started you know in 1970 in 1970, the first Earth Day, they had already, they based it on the population bomb. So this has always been about stopping us breathing and stopping us doing everything. So it's always been about killing people.

And so you have to understand that we just don't accept their premise that there is a virus, a pandemic, or a climate crisis. You cannot play that game with them. Yeah, I try to, for example. I refer to the event that was marketed as a pandemic, and then I will deconstruct that a little bit. And I'll point out that, yeah, it's technically true. If you really want to be pedantic about it, that it was a pandemic in the sense that maybe there was a bug going around.

But the thing, the key to understanding this, I think, is the disingenuousness of it. Because to the average person, when they hear that word pandemic, it calls up immediately associations of mass death. And that's exactly what they wanted by using that term. It's a dishonest way of having a discussion about it. Just the same when they talk about emissions, you know, which the implication there is that it's a pollutant. The implication then is that you're causing some sort of harm to the external environment. And to characterize carbon dioxide, which plants need in order to create oxygen so that we can breathe as a pollutant is preposterous. So it's really important to deconstruct all of these things.

And it's a lot of work. It's literally like cleaning out the aegean stables you know you have to parse almost every word that's used today in the debate i wish i could remember the exact phraseology of it but i think it was rm at terrell back in the 90s and he talked about something he called the the culture smog do you remember that term yeah yeah and what he meant by that was that everything is so fought now with this this dishonest language that causes people to think of he meant by that was that everything is so fought now with this this dishonest language that causes people to think of things in a certain way that it becomes almost impossible to have a rational discussion about anything without first going back and

picking apart these words and trying to figure out what exactly is meant by that word what is the the point of view that they're trying to convey and let's discuss that before we have the broader discussion that's right and you mentioned the term smog right when's the last time we've heard the term smog nobody talks about that anymore because we got rid of it right they put on emission controls and everything and we don't have smog but smog was just uh you know something that they used to take us to the next step, right? It's always astounding the neurosis of people, you know, that they can't, okay, they're telling me that there's something that's dangerous out there. I'm going to use my eyes and look. I'm looking out the window of my office. The sky's blue.

It seems pretty nice out there. Just like with the virus. Oh, it's just this invisible boogeyman. It's going to kill us all. It's invisible. It's always invisible invisible isn't it they're literally turning the populace into a bunch of neurotic hysterically scared children who are crawling under the bed to hide because there's danger danger everywhere yeah i said everybody on pins and needles i said back in april 2020 i said we've become an ocd nation i mean everybody was wiping everything down masks

and gloves i mean i can't get gas i'm afraid i'm gonna catch the virus these people are crazy now the pandemic was political and um the um and it was uh psychological it wasn't biological right and and that's what we have to understand yes there were people who additional people who died and they were dying from stuff like the ventilators and the medical protocols and the remdesivir and things like that that was actually killing more people and they were being paid handsomely to kill people by the Trump administration. How about stress and loneliness? You know, shutting people in homes where they had no access to their family and giving them no hope and no reason to live, you know, that'll sap the life out of an elderly person. And that's what happened to a lot of them.

That's right. Well, you know, getting back to this thing, face up to a year in jail in Washington state for having a leaf blower. Oh, yeah. And then, of course, Biden is coming after ceiling fans after he shuts down our air conditioning. He wants to come after the ceiling fans and he wants to redesign them, quote unquote, for efficiency to the extent that nobody would be able to afford them. That is really what we're looking at here. Here's this is New York and this is up in the Buffalo area where they do get a

lot of snow. They have the lake effect that's up there. And now what they're doing though, this harkens back to the kinds of controls that we had during Trump's lockdown. They want to enforce travel bans for weather and for any other catastrophes that they could imagine. Right? So it's all there. We didn't get rid of any of this stuff. They're going to bring it back. They're going to have different MacGuffins, but they're still going to get their travel

bans, which is what they really want. And in this particular case, I guess you could say it's a travel ban over the climate because it's a travel ban over the weather. But that's really what they want to have is that, and they will give travel exemptions to essential people. Oh, isn't this the same language that Trump used? The safety cult, I wrote about this probably 10 or 15 years ago, I predicted that it's going to metastasize to the point where if there's a snowflake

wafting down from the sky or if we're going to get some heavy rain, they're going to impose travel bans because it's not safe to be on the roads. You know, they've already asserted and established the precedent for all of these things. And since they haven't been challenged, they're going to continue to use them. You know, everything that occurred during the past three years, none of that has yet been fully rejected as unwarranted, unreasonable, tyrannical. They simply dialed it back a little bit, and they're waiting for their next opportunity

to bring it back out of the toolkit. Yeah. I remember when this happened in 2020, and they went around, they gave us a paper and said, you know, try to make a case that, you know, this person is engaged in a central thing of informing the public or whatever, and, you know, these are not the droids

you're looking for, officer. Let him go. You know? I never had to use that at a stop. I never had to do any of those Jedi mind tricks. But that is exactly what they're saying with this. We're going to have a list of essential employees. It'll be reviewed annually.

And essential employers. And they'll be asked to provide updates. And then you'll have to show your identity papers to the stormtroopers. Yeah. Liberal stormtroopers. They send them out when there's troopers. Yeah. Liberal storm troopers. They send them out when there's a storm. Yeah. And then just wait.

If by some happenstance, the orange man is brought back into office next year, then to solve this problem of the illegal aliens who've been entering the country, Americans are just going to have to deal with showing their papers at checkpoints because we just can't have all of these illegal aliens running around through the country. Oh, yeah. We have to figure out who's here. That's what they're going to have to deal with showing their papers at checkpoints because we just can't have all of these illegal aliens running around through the country. Oh, you have to figure out who's here. That's what they're going to do in that case. Oh, absolutely right. I mean, it's already started with DeSantis in Florida and the Republicans in Florida.

They said, we're going to have E-Verify and we're going to make it mandatory. And see, E-Verify has been around for a while and Republicans have always referred back to that. And I've said, no, that is a trap. Do not do that. You know, we're going to leave the borders wide open but now you americans are going to have to get an id and they're already talking about this because you've got people like michelle woo saying we're going to let foreigners vote in our elections so now the republicans would say no we're going to have something to prove that you're an american citizen you're going to have to have e-verify to vote you're going to have to don't give me a reason to not vote i've got many enough

of them as it is but uh you know you're gonna're going to have to show your e-verify to vote, your e-verify, as you point out, maybe to drive to the store. It's just crazy. But it's always a problem, and then they've already got the solution set up, and the solution always comes for all these problems that they've created. It always goes back to a digital ID. So you're just going to have to have that on your phone. Yeah, and fundamentally, doesn't this all

earlier with regard to consent? None of us have consented to this that I'm aware of. It's just being imposed upon us. And I think the only way we're going to get out of this is to reassert that unless I have freely consented to something, then it is illegitimate. And you do not have the right

to oppress me with a contract that I've been coerced into being a party to. That's right. Yeah, well, I think it's going to create the necessitation for a secession of sorts. And I've talked to people from the Tenth Amendment Center and others, and they pointed out, they said, you know, the middle ground here is nullification and non-commandeering. And those have already been upheld. And it's clear that you can have local officials who say, well, we're just not going to enforce those laws. And we saw that happening in 2020.

That really is probably our best approach for all this, is just to say, we're going to focus on trying to get people in office locally who are not going to do this, even if the state government is doing it the very beginning of this i remember there was a guy who had a church that he kept open so they put him on fox news he got a lot of attention he was in illinois and pritzker wanted to shut down the church there well he got the the sheriff there in that area uh the sheriff and his deputies uh because pritzker was saying well we're going to send the state police down there and we're going to arrest you people if you go to church he got the sheriff and his deputies, because Pritzker was saying, well, we're going to send the state police down there and we're going to arrest you people if you go to church.

He got the sheriff and his deputies and the sheriff went to his church, small town. And so, you know, Sheriff Taylor and Barney Fife go out and Barney puts his bullet in and they guard the people there, the church, from being arrested. And they fortunately it didn't come to a confrontation or anything. But, you know, they were there to stop that from happening stop them from being uh harassed and so you know you can if you got the right people uh you can do things to to stop that kind of intrusion yep non-compliance is a very powerful tool even when it's only practiced by an individual but when more individuals decide to practice, then it takes on a kind of kinetic energy all of its own. A point comes when something becomes unenforceable because it becomes ridiculous. Go back a few years.

A really good example of that is the old 55-mile-an-hour national speed limit. Remember that? Oh, yeah. It became preposterous. They kept it in force for 20 years, but everybody mocked it. Everybody dissipated it. Totally delegitimized traffic enforcement because everybody knew it was just a scam to get money and they eventually had to repeal it and that's a really good object lesson and how to deal with

this stuff you and i have talked before you know during the event that was marketed as a pandemic if only enough people had refused to obey the mask mandates that's right only that had happened it would have become unenforceable within a month, and the whole thing would have fallen apart, if only. So that's a lesson to take from that episode when the next episode comes up. And I tried to point out to people throughout the lockdown stuff, I said, look at what happened with medical marijuana and with pot prohibition right what do we have we got more than half the states have said even though it is now still listed as a class one drug and

their war on drugs uh more than half of the states have said well we're not going to enforce that and we're not going to arrest people for that uh even for recreational use in some states so whether or not you agree with pot prohibition pot pot prohibition, like all the drug war, is against the Constitution. They never passed an amendment like the 18th Amendment to prohibit either stuff, and they never had the power. And so you have somebody like Jeff Sessions, who was, you know, had fully succumbed to reefer madness.

And he wanted to shut this down so badly, but he never would. And that's why I say, you know, he didn't want to show how they had bullied and bluffed people over this issue where they had absolutely no legal authority. And that is a real shining example, regardless of what side you're on about marijuana or pot. That's a shining example of how you can shut down one of the biggest government agendas, the drug war. And because that, that marijuana and pot that they were locking the most people up for during the war on drugs and to shut that down. Now, you know,

the States have used it as a, as a way to make money and they've got their own regulations and things like that. But the bottom line is what it teaches us about authority when they overreach their authority. I think many of us have forgotten the lesson that most of us did learn in elementary school, which is that you're not going to get anywhere by deferring to bullies. You'll never comply your way out of bullying.

That's right. You know, it's not pleasant, but you have to stand up to bullies. And if you stand up to them, then the bullying stops. And if only enough people would just practice that, that standing up, even if it just means, no, I'm not going to do that. Come with me. Okay, whatever. If we would just recover our spine as a society, then most of these problems would no longer be problems, at least not to the extent that they are. If you've got a critical mass of people in a local area and they like people in town, government,

and a sheriff and things like that, you have to have a critical mass to have that happen. And that critical mass can stand around those elected officials who are going to stand in the gap and stop this from happening. Yeah. Let's talk about one of your articles here. Another entry luxury price entry level vehicle. I like that. A luxury priced entry level vehicle. Which one is this? Well, let's start with some terminology. In the car business, the term entry luxury referred to a luxury brand's least expensive model, but it was still expensive. And the bar typically defining that was about $34,000, $35,000. That's what you used to pay for, say, an entry luxury Lexus or a bmw or mercedes

and what have you and and the counter to that was the entry level car which was typically synonymous with an economy car an affordable car a good example of an entry level car would be something like a toyota corolla let's say well uh as we transition into the world of battery-powered vehicles, the entry-level car is becoming the entry luxury-priced car. All of the latest EVs that they're bringing out and they're marketing these things as affordable have prices that start right around what used to be the defining price point for an entry luxury car. Fiat is bringing back their little 500 micro car uh as an electric car it's going to start around 34 000 volkswagen has just announced that they're going to bring out their entry-level electric crossover it's going to start around 34 35 000. wow uh so you know that's what they're they're pushing now and there's this this interesting malevolence behind it in that it's

being pushed by the left and the left putatively cares about the working man the average guy right if you're still buying that anyway it's very clear that a working man an average blue collar guy is not going to be able to afford to spend 34 or 34 or 35 thousand dollars on a car so it's very clear the intent is to just pull all of these people who cannot afford that price of entry out of cars. That's right. That's right. Yeah, especially with interest rates where they are at this point in time. You know, it's interesting to see this in the UK. They went through some of their models, and it's not really important what the models are,

but across the board, they had 30 used models of EVs that had plunged the most value in 2023. And so they had 30 different models of EVs that had lost half of their value in the first year. That's tremendous drop. And that is indicative of the collapsing demand for EVs in general and the price premium that they have to charge for these things. It's just something else. It's not just that they depreciate as all cars do it's to be used a used electric car has a used battery and batteries as the age lose their capacity to hold a charge and so now you're going to get a vehicle that had started out with let's say the ability to maybe go 200 and something miles on a charge now it only goes 150. and if you hold on to it a little bit more it's only going to go 75 and then it's not going to go at all uh and if you want to go any farther you're going to have

to replace that battery now you're looking at spending 10 15 even 20 000 on a battery for an electric car that you bought for 10 or 15 000 nobody's going to do that and that's why they're not selling yeah and we all know that we know from experience. We know what happens to our phones and our laptops. I mean, all of our laptops are so old that they don't function unless they're plugged into the wall now is what the situation is around here. I can run my laptop for maybe about 20 minutes and then I better get it plugged into the wall or it's gone. And so that's what happens. You know, they charge up more slowly. They discharge more rapidly.

They aren't able to last with that thing. And we've all experienced that with all of our electronic devices. Why are the cars, why do people think the cars are going to be any different? It's just a bigger problem and a more expensive battery to replace. Well, it's far worse because with, say, a laptop, you know, a laptop doesn't have to move, it just sits on your desk. So the battery in the laptop is relatively small and typically proportionately to the value of the laptop, it might be worth spending 150 bucks or whatever on

a new battery for a laptop, rather than buying a new laptop for $800, let's say. But the cost of battery replacement is so exorbitantly high that it's unmanageable. You know, it doesn't matter how much you want. You know, the bottom line is, okay, I'm going to what? I'm going to put $15,000 on my credit card of 30% interest to pay for a new battery for this used EV. It's insane. Economically speaking, nobody's going to do that.

And the battery is more expensive than the value of the car as it's depreciating. And now, you know, so you've got this accelerating trend, you know, do that and the battery is more expensive than the value of the car as it's depreciating and now you know so you've got this accelerating trend you know people because the battery the prices of them are going down but now because the prices of them are going down it doesn't make any sense it makes even less sense to replace the battery you know and the hypocrisy of all this is kind of interesting um uh eric because this thing that i use here my pad that i put my articles on uh to try to go paperless, I got an update from them and they've got a new model for this year and it's got a removable battery. Why? Because the EU has mandated that they have to have removable batteries for these

things. And yet they keep mandating the EVs for people that don't have removable batteries that are easily replaced or at least affordably replaced either. You know what I'm saying? It is kind of crazy that, you know, for a small device like this, it's not all that expensive. They're going to mandate that it's going to have to have a replaceable battery that is easily replaced and everything. And yet for the cars, they're not easily replaced and certainly not economically replaced, regardless of how easy it is to get them out of there. It's only crazy if you start with the assumption that this is some kind of well-intended effort to simply replace the cars that we're driving right now with these electric cars because they're better for the environment. And that's just, it's not the right

way to look at it. That's right. This this is malicious they understand perfectly well what this is all about and the part of the point of it is to use the electric vehicle as the vehicle to get most people out of cars they're well aware of the cost issues they're well aware of the practicality issues they know that there isn't sufficient electrical capacity to power up uh an entire national fleet of evs if such a thing existed they know this the whole point and it's not me hypothesizing or you can read their documents in one of my most recent articles i've linked to one of the documents where they very specifically say what they want is to get roughly two-thirds of the cars off the road two-thirds of the people out of cars and this is the mechanism by which they're going to accomplish that that's right yeah and that's just the next the next step. The ultimate goal is to get everybody out of their cars.

And you're right, it's not irony. It's just hypocrisy, and it's a real malevolent hypocrisy that they've got going there. But we've also seen now, last time you were on, we talked about how some of the American car companies are pulling back. Now Audi is pulling back on electric vehicles. You've got the CEO there saying that he wants to avoid flooding dealerships.

We've also talked about that, how the inventory is backing up for all types of cars because of high interest rates, but especially for the EVs. And he said that they forecasted that electric car take-up is going to be slashed by about half from last month. Sales of new battery-powered cars expected to grow steadily until they accounted for 67% of the market by 2027. But that has now been revised down from 67% to an expectation of 38%. And I think that that is optimistic because I think now word is getting out as the people who are the early adopters have tried to do this. And of course, they're now also facing cheaper cars and competition from China. Audi has been kind of a luxury model.

And you got a review about one of the Audis. As a matter of fact, you got a review about one of the luxury Audis. Tell us a little bit about that. Well, the A8, it's kind of a depressing review in that the A8 is Audi's top of the line model. It's in the same class of cars a mercedes s-class or a bmw 7 series and if you go back oh just a few years go back about 10 years a car like the audi a8 would have come minimally with a v8 engine as a standard engine and typically cars in that class and we're talking about six figure cars here you know cars that

have a starting price around 80 90 100 000 uh would have the option to go with a d12 engine in the case of the a8 they had a w12 you remember that wow no i don't remember that yeah because after all you're spending essentially exotic money you're spending nearly a hundred thousand dollars for one of these things you know you're not buying a corolla or a camry well now this top of the line audi and similarly the top of the line mercedes and the top of the line bmw they come standard with a little v6 engine because the v6 is now becoming the new v12 you know it's it's something that's exclusive and exotic as on the lower end of the spectrum i wrote about this recently uh toyota is pulling the v6 out of the camry uh they canceled

the avalon altogether which was a slightly larger version of the Camry. They canceled the Avalon altogether, which was a slightly larger version of the Camry. And they're both now going to be four-cylinder only hybrids. So, you know, the proletariat, the peons, can have a four-cylinder engine, which used to be kind of synonymous with an economy car, and that's exactly what it is, except the price isn't economy anymore.

Whereas if you have the means, you know, if you're in that category of person who can afford something like an A8, now you can have a V6. But that's all you can have for $90,000. And the people who didn't buy one a couple of years ago are smacking themselves in the head saying, I could have had a V8. But you can't get it anymore. And of course, as they do that, Eric, it plays to the major selling point of the EVs, which is just straight line acceleration. Yes. Yeah.

Exactly right. Very interesting. I had some inside baseball conversations with a person. I can't really talk about it directly yet. I'm going to be writing about this at one of the major luxury car brands who was kind of chastising me about my position in electric vehicles. And I said to this person, what will be the selling point of your brand when all you sell are battery powered devices and everybody else is selling battery powered devices and there really isn't any material difference between your device and their device. It's going to be EverReady or Energizer over here. I mean, how are you going to, where does, where does, you know, at one point you had these

wonderful particular types of engines that the other manufacturers didn't have and that was a selling point well that's all going away when everything has a battery and a motor you can make a bigger battery a smaller battery but there's no personality there's nothing particular about it so why not just have one conglomerated motors company that sells different shapes of extruded plastic blobs with different size motors or different power configurations and it's just all the same homogenized stuff coming out of this, being squeezed out of the same factory somewhere. Well, that's when you call in the descendants of Edward Bernays and Madison Avenue and you

create this mystique around a brand and you charge three times as much for it. And then it just becomes a status symbol. It's not that there's any functionally different thing about them at all. It's kind of interesting. I'm sure you saw this about the cyber truck that got stuck. Many people call it the cyber is stuck and as i showed this thing being pulled out by uh a ford pickup truck and i think that it was the ceo of ford that said well this is an early christmas gift or something to that extent to show that the uh cyber truck was being pulled out by a gasoline engine uh ford truck but uh yeah it is uh it is kind of interesting to see how this is is developing and now we've got elon musk who has uh made a pivot to uh saying well we're not going to be able to get rid of fossil fuels in the short term or maybe even in the medium term uh so we need to

kind of get used to it and boy he is just being eviscerated by the climate cult over that statement you know i'm not sure what to make of musk i'd actually like to meet that guy have a conversation with him uh you know i see parallels with trump and that he'll say things that for an audience that is desperate to hear something that sounds like it might possibly indicate that that person is in favor of liberty to some degree or other that they just lap it right up and and and then they shut down their minds to anything that is dissonant you know that that makes that questionable uh you know musk has talked greatly about uh how he's going to be a big proponent of free speech and how x is now not

what twitter was and it's simply not the case i can tell you that i've been shadow banned repeatedly i'm sure you've dealt with something and recently i even documented it in an article that i wrote about it yeah people understand that it's up on the site and and Elon Musk oh my God his entire operation he's been the stalking horse he's been the tip of the spear for this whole forced electrification thing he used the government to leverage uh his business to to extort money through the carbon tax a carbon credit regime uh regime to extort all the legitimate automakers to finance his business, to force these EVs out there and to create kind of a fate accompli situation where all the other manufacturers now have to create the same kinds of electrified

devices. And that's all we're going to be allowed. And now he's telling us, well, maybe we got to keep, we have to stick around with some fossil fuels for a while. I don't understand it. Yeah. The very first time we talked, I mentioned this because I talked about Elon Musk the other day about this.

I said, you know, look, the guy's a technocrat. He's a transhumanist. He's not on your side and he's going to do the same thing to you. These people on the left are so angry with him now because they feel like he's betrayed them. But I guess when he does it to the right, they will still be just as incapable of saying that they've been betrayed as they are with trump but i said you know he is he sold all this stuff to get to become the richest

man in the world and as all these conservatives are writing article after article about oh elon musk look at this the richest man in the world is going to use his fortune to buy our free speech back from these people who want to make slaves out of us. It's like, is that really what he's going to do? And I showed a clip of when Theory Breton, the censor in the EU, the guy who's head of the censorship in the EU, came to Austin after he bought Twitter and lectured Elon Musk about how the DSA was going to be coming into effect. I call Theory Breton, i call him the conspiracy theory because he's part of this conspiracy to shut down free speech and so he comes there and just and elon musk is just groveling before him and so you get this conflicting stuff but i think he's just

playing to the audience and i think he's playing him in the same way that trump did i think he's smart enough to really understand i think he could sit there and watch how Trump played the MAGA crowd and say, you know, I can do that too. Because he's already talked about how, he says, Soros has picked these races for district attorneys and other things like that. He's realized that he gets more bang for his buck if he goes to the local elections. Musk is very, very political. You know, he became the richest man in the world

by playing politics with all of these dictators worldwide, including our American dictators. And he knows exactly how the political game is being played. He has a very understanding of the strategy there about Soros. And he's got his own strategy. And I think that he is playing the Trump game with all this stuff. Yeah, it's like a game of whack-a-mole and and it's a very successful maneuver in that it diverts people

from really understanding the nature of their enemy by thinking that he's their friend and it's the same strategy used by the trumper people too and it's to me it's very tragic because most people who are being manipulated in this manner are well-meant people you know they're they're they're trying to grab on to something they know that something's very profoundly wrong with the country and they are desperate what can we do what can we do you you know back in history if you read about the you know the late czarist early pre-communist era when russians were exasperated what is to be done was the name of a famous essay back then because it seemed as if the world was crumbling around them and normal people want order not chaos they want calm not uh not violence everywhere and so they're so enervated

and they're so upset that they will just latch on to if they think that might be the one that might be our solution. Instead of thinking, you know, we need to look into ourselves and we need to take care of ourselves somehow and recover our power that way and stop being led. I don't want a Fuhrer. You know, the German word means leader. I'm not looking for a leader. I'm an adult. I can direct my own life.

Thank you very much. And I think that if people in this country recover that, which used to be a typical American mindset, we used to be a nation of skeptical people who practiced due diligence. If somebody presented us with something, we had questions, and we demanded answers. And if the answers weren't good, we wouldn't put up with it. And we need to get back to that somehow. Yeah, I've said many times when i was uh young people used to uh say well you know um don't make a federal case out of this well everything is a federal case now right yes

absolutely so there ought to be a law and it's like no there ought not to be a law about that uh and certainly don't want to make it a federal law but you know you mentioned how musk has been a stalking horse for all this stuff. And he has. And this is one of the reasons why he's hated so much on the left, because they feel betrayed by him. This publication of Futurism talking about Musk and how he says, well, we're going to still need fossil fuels in the short and medium term.

They said Musk is willing to renege on his commitments to the environment to score political points even if that means undercutting the very mission of his ev maker tesla which warns that a delay in moving to renewables could quote increase the risk of global climate change with potentially disastrous consequences worldwide so tesla is still selling this tesla knows how the game is being played tesla is still a stalking horse. And Musk is still tied into all this stuff at the very beginning. And here's an example. You know, the Cybertruck comes out.

And so Jay Leno is talking to the chief designer of the Cybertruck. And they start talking about inductive charging. And this happens at exactly the same time that the state of Florida is talking about setting up a road that is going to inductively charge EVs. Well, there's not any EVs that are inductively charged right now. And so Musk is going to be there right at the very beginning. You know, he's going to present what these places, you know, what these governments want to do in order to push this EV agenda. He's going to be there right from the very beginning.

He's still on board with this 2030 agenda and still on the cutting edge. Sorry. And as you were reading that, I was doing my little etymological dissection that I've become, it's become a rote habit for me when I read and hear things. Commitment to the environment. Well, how do you do that? I mean, it's just a dumb phrase, right? It is.

It's a nonspecific, is it's a non-specific feel good virtue signaling phrase yeah and they get away with this stuff and you know you even read it i wrote an article about something that was in scientific american and i can't remember i've got so many balls up in the air what it was all about but scientific american used to be a reputable publication you know science used to be about uh specifics because that's what the nature of science is you have to understand what you're talking about in order to talk about it intelligently. It has to be something that can be examined and that can be evaluated in terms of facts. And if it isn't, for example, climate change, what does that mean exactly?

There is no meaning to it exactly because it's amorphous. It's vague. The climate change is okay. Well, it's a political term it's it's a very deliberate political term that's designed to uh encompass anything at all and that's the point of it and in in in a in the in the mind of anybody who has been trained to think critically at all it ought to raise red flags because of its non-specific non-specific non-specific nature forgive me i've been drinking way too much coffee this morning.

Yeah, well, you know, that's exactly right. It was for the first eight years or so after Earth Day, it was all about a new ice age. And it's going to be global cooling. And then all of a sudden they just flipped the switch and it became global warming. And then it stayed there until about, I guess, what was it, about 10, 15 years ago? Maybe not even that long. And they just changed it to, well, it's just going to be climate change. Well, I guess, what was about 10, 15 years ago, maybe not even that long. And they did change it to, well, it's just going to be climate change. Climate change.

There'll be anything. You know, they just give up on the ice age. They give up on the warming. And so now they've got a term that they can use. And whatever happens, you know, again, if it's too much snow and not enough snow, well, it's because of your internal combustion engine. But it truly is amazing to see how he is always there on the cusp of all this stuff, isn't it? Well, he's not an idiot. He didn't get to be the world's richest man by being an imbecile.

He's definitely smart. The question is whether he's honorable and trustworthy, and I think we know the answer to those questions. And the sad thing, too, is that where they're going to build this induction road, you know, we talk about if we build it, they will come. You know, we're going to build this induction road where they charge the cars. And yet there's not any cars that have inductive charging on them yet. But I'm sure that they'll build it.

And here is Elon Musk to fulfill that for these government agencies. But this is coming from Republican Florida, conservative Republican Florida. The Central Florida Expressway Authority is going to be the ones who are going to do this so some big boondoggle from them uh and you know we've talked for the longest time about the um uh the autopilot which was the big uh you know high-tech cherry that he put on there which is not really working and how he has been able to skate around all these draconian measures that they pull against people like VW for quote-unquote cheating on an admission thing. Now you've got Tesla drivers are now being forced to pay after killing two people on

autopilot. And that's one of the things that we all talked about, that we talked about over the years, you and I. Who's going to have the liability when the autopilot kills people? Is it going to be the insurance company? Is it going to be the insurance company? Is it going to be the, uh, is it going to be Tesla, the automobile company, or is it going to be the person who owned the car and is sitting in the car while they got it on autopilot? And that's where they decided in this particular one, they, it's

not going to be Musk. It's going to be you. It's going to be holding the bag. That's because they've got the little lawyer screen in the car and the, uh, the language in the agreement, the user agreement that says, you know, the driver is responsible for being ready to intervene at any time and maintaining the ability to control the car. But, of course, that flies at odds with the plane meaning of autopilot. You know, they chose that term deliberately. It's an aviation term. You know, so when a commercial plane is up at altitude and it's not necessary to be directly, constantly involved in the operation of the plane, you can put it on autopilot. The pilot still has to sit there by law in the left seat and be monitoring. But the term implies that the thing is going to fly itself, which is technically true. But in terms of the car, of course it doesn't, you know, and yet you're placed in this paradoxical position as the person who owns the car.

Okay, I'm going to spend the money because I want the car to be capable of driving itself. But then if it wrecks because I wasn't paying attention to the driving, it's my fault for using the autopilot. And Musk somehow manages to get away with that, and it's despicable. That's right. So he's got the trump game down already yes he was he was just playing 4d chess with you when he sold you autopilot you know autopilot it either is or it isn't if it's not able to to safely drive the car then it's not autopilot and there's no point in having it and you might as well just be the driver of the car

right that's right well we're talking about autopilot take a look at what is going on in the uk they are now rolling out they rolled it out in wales and now you got uh you know sadiq khan who is rolling it out around the london area they're changing the speed limits from 30 to 20 and spending a lot of money to put signage up and they're going to be issuing speeding tickets and all the rest of this kind of stuff but you know when you look at this eric it reminds me what we were just talking about when we said uh you know the one what is the strong point really of the electric vehicles and that is straight line acceleration and so what are you doing now well they're making the cars go down to four-cylinder engines right uh to to highlight that and so when you look at this you know what is their problem uh with the self-driving

taxis with all the johnny cabs that they just shut down in california and other things like that well it's the fact that they can't really navigate this stuff and they're super slow and um you know they can't make these decisions quickly and so they've got to go really slow, like you're in some kind of a self-driving golf cart or something. So when they start lowering the speed limit from 30 to 20, what are they doing? Well, first of all, they're frustrating drivers. And it's like, why am I even bothering with this thing, right? And then, you know, tickets being issued with you by speed cameras and all the rest of this stuff all the time. And now to take it down to the speed that Johnny cab can drive.

So she says, all right, fine. I'm just done. I can't drive more than 20 miles an hour anyway. So here have the keys to my car and you can have my car. You know, that's really what they're doing,

isn't it? Oh, absolutely. You know, and it's, it's something it's what they call law enforcement, a clue, you know,

to people who, who like Tesla's and these, these ludicrously fast accelerating electric vehicles generally they are going to make it so that you can't make use of the one thing that the EV has that most other cars don't have they're letting you know you know knocking on wood here be aware you know you're gonna have your a hundred thousand dollar Tesla S with the, with the hypothetical capability of going to zero 62.9 seconds, but if you use it, yeah, I know you're back to these, you're back to these hypercars that,

you know, how they go, yeah, it can go 170 miles an hour. It's like, okay, go ahead and try that. You know, it's like the song. You can discern here, like the ultimate object of all of this is to make driving so unbearable, so unpleasant, uh, so expensive that people will throw up their hands in despair and say, okay, I give in, I'll just walk or I'll ride the bicycle or I'll take the train and that's exactly what they want. That's right.

It reminds me of the old song. Oh, I can't remember the name of it, but the line goes, uh, my Maserati does 195. I lost my license, now I can't drive. That's what we're going to be with all this stuff. Now they want to make life impossible for us, whether it's an automobile or a ceiling fan. They got to take that away from us. It truly is. And they don't care what we think here in this situation um they had a half a million people sign a petition against this hated policy that's the way it's reported in the uk lowering it from 30 to 20 and they just blew it off they said we don't care uh they said this is going to save lives and it's like okay and and we know they've had their vision zero for a long time everything is about zero everything is you know we got net zero but they had vision zero which was to say we're going to have no lives lost and of course a big part of vision zero was to make sure that we're going to turn everything over to autopilot and you know we're still seeing that the autopilot is killing people uh it is always going to be a situation

but that's the way they justify all the road diets and all the road calming issues and all the lowering of the speed limits and everything. We got to just stop everybody from dying. And yet everything else that they do in this cynical hypocrisy is set up to depopulation, you know, to create depopulation, death by government. Isn't that amazing? Yeah. Well, zero is the mark of a fanatic. Yeah. It's not reasonable.

That's right. You know, you're talking about something that is being used as a pretext for almost unimaginable tyranny because you know in a rational reasonable world there are costs and there are benefits there are pros and cons and it's a spectrum and you weigh things and and you come up with a reasonable middle ground uh you know if you're not a bad person if you're not somebody who's in the grip of some kind of deranged religious mania which is what we're dealing with here it's i use the word religion it's secular but it's still a religion these people have a faith it's an evil faith but

they're no less fervent on account of that and and it's it's kind of the the torquemada-esque there can be no apostasy anywhere you, we cannot permit the slightest heresy. You know, if you violate the dogma, if you violate the coda, then you are a heretic and you must be burned at the stake. You know, metaphorically as well as potentially literally with regard to the stuff that we're talking about. Oh, yeah. I think it's a really good point you made. It really is, you know, it's the mark of a fanatic to talk about zero and everything they talk about is zero. You know, absolute zero.

I guess because they're absolutists, you know. They want everything they talk about is zero uh you know absolute zero like i guess because they're absolutists you know they they want everything to absolutely go to zero and when they're talking about saving lives in this petition uh they said that you know the government is claiming that it reducing this to 20 miles per hour and they put all uppercase everywhere because that's where they want to do it everywhere uh saves lives yet we get flyers merely claiming that it will. We don't have any evidence about this. We've got opinions from doctors, but there's no evidence.

It's just the same MacGuffin that they played on us through this so-called pandemic. At least one of the trials, they said, however, in villages actually reverted their trial because it was causing absolute carnage on the road. They said that every time I go out, they said nobody is driving at 20 miles an hour. The Welsh government has failed to produce any convincing evidence to support these claims. Again, it's the same tactic they keep using. They don't show you the data for the climate stuff. They don't show you the data for their imposed regulations.

They didn't show you the data for their supposed virus and pandemic. And they don't show you the data for their supposed virus and pandemic, and they don't show you the data for their solution, the jab. Let's take it to its logical conclusion. Let's forbid all movement as a way to achieve vision zero. And even then, you're not going to do it because inevitably there's going to be somebody who might have a heart attack while they're lying in bed. You know, again, it just reveals the religious mania of these people, and it's a dishonest mania. They know it is. They're just using this to gaslight people.

You know, they put forward, well, you know, somebody might die. Oh, it's always a hypothetical. Somebody might be injured as the pretextual excuse and justification to impose something obnoxious and tyrannical on everybody. And, you know, these politicians are really no better than these idiots who are gluing themselves to the highway and creating massive roadblocks and causing people with medical emergencies

to have serious medical consequences or even die. That's really what is happening. But the politicians are doing that in reality with their regulations. I've got a comment here for you. This is on Rumble. Thank you very much for the tip, YJ72. I'm very curious. Why don't we hear about updated tests for COVID-19 yet?

Because there's so many variants. How do we test for something new with an existing test? That's a very good question. I love that. What do you think existing test? That's a very good question. I love that. What do you think about that? That's a good retort. Well, you know, I'm not really sure about these tests. Isn't it the case that if you put a banana in the blender and cycle it enough, you'll come up with a positive test?

That's right. I've had people, as a matter of fact, Andy was saying he's EMS and he was saying, yeah, we had a nurse who tested one of these things right out of the package and got a positive test for it. I think it was all just harassment if you look at it, right? Because, and I've said this, you look at the Cannes Film Festival and all these elitists show up and this was just a couple of months before they were going to go to the next stage of saying you're going to have to have a vaccine or you're not going to go anywhere. But they held off on that so they could have their con film festival in france as these

people showed up they were saying this is disgusting i have to spit in this container to get a covet test it's like you get to spit we get this thing ramrodded up our nose if you submit to that and then in china they were doing it rectally you know to the state department employees it's not just disgusting it's degrading yeah it is that's the point i maintain that that then in China, they were doing it rectally, you know, to the state department employees. It's not just disgusting, it's degrading. Yeah, it is. That's the point. I maintain that that was part of the reason for the pushing of the masks as well, because it's a humiliation ritual. You know, it's not just making somebody do something, it's making somebody do something that is degrading and embarrassing. Yes. And there's a purpose psychologically for that. And the masks were the same way.

You know, how could you believe that these little, and there's no definition of what a mask is. It could be anything. And so it was all just an exercise in humiliation, obedience, and power. It was a psychological experiment. That's true. But that's a very good observation, Y.J. I think that is true. You know, to call their bluff on that and that and say well how is it that you've got all these new variants and yet you haven't changed the test and how do you know how to to test for this thing what are you testing

for anyway the whole thing was a scam wasn't it and that really kind of shows it right there doesn't it absolutely that's great and i've got another person who left a tip on Rumble. Thank you, KFB, very much and wished us happy Merry Christmas. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. And it's great to have you on. And I want to wish you a Merry Christmas. Happy New Year. We won't be talking to you until after the new year.

But, you know, you got how are things there in Virginia? How's your self-sufficient projects well we've only got about 30 seconds so just oh well they're doing okay it's gotten very cold i'm grateful for uh hydrocarbon fuels to keep us warm though that's great that's great i won't turn you in i won't tell anybody that you said that we we've got the stasi society is being set up right now but i will not inform on you thank you so much er. Eric Peters at epautos.com, or you can also find him at ericpetersautos.com or epautos.com. And either one of those, yeah, you can get to Eric Peters. Thank you so much, Eric.

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