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bot yeah there you go there you go and you got a special t-shirt you want to show us there too as well hopefully you guys will be able to see that I stand with Ukraine. That's great. Key for the long, long E and a sheep. You must have loved that back and forth with Tucker and Pence over the last Friday. Wasn't that something? He's brilliant. He does such a good job of laying bear traps for these people that they just step right into it. And they do it unconsciously.

And even after he did it, even after Pence said it's not his problem, he did not realize the magnitude of his own gaffe. It's just astounding how insular these people are, how tone deaf they are. Yeah. And totally focused away from this country. Not my concern what's going on in the U.S. Not my concern at all. I'm focused on Kiev. Yeah, right.

I mean, the contemptuousuousness the callousness of that you know americans are hurting badly uh and we're supposed to be preoccupied obsessed with and willing to bear literally any burden including potentially a draft including possibly a nuclear conflagration yeah over ukraine yeah oh yeah it's astounding well because you know it's not really about Ukraine. It's about their empire, isn't it? It's about the NATO empire.

You know, they want to extend NATO to the Pacific ocean. They want to extend their power everywhere. And, and it's really a hallmark of a decaying empire, isn't it? That they're so focused on what is happening externally with their geopolitics that they're,

that the country itself is just decaying internally. Yeah. It's like the, you know, the United Kingdom trying to maintain the Raj long after it became evident that Britain could barely support itself anymore. Yeah, and also the deliberate things that are done. I mean, it's not just the massive amounts of money. It's not just the fact that we've sent them so much weaponry that Biden has to admit, well, we haven't got any more of this ammunition, so we've got to send them cluster bombs.

It's like, what? You're out of ammunition. You know, you've had people say that you violated national security by telling people we're out of ammunition. You're not supposed to say that. And, uh, you know, but they're, they're going to sacrifice our defense is what really they're talking about. Sacrifice our defense for their program of offense.

And, uh, it, it truly is amazing to see them continue to double down with us, but you know, Pence and Nikki Haley, he could have done the same thing with her. She might've been smart enough to see the trap come in and she might've come on later on. Uh, he found her in some other ways. He outed her, but she is a huge, uh, neocon as well, but truly was amazing to see this tone deaf Pence talking talking about that and i think by the way that tucker's audience uh for that interview was something on the order of nine

million you know which is very you know when you think about that you know they kicked him off of fox news my understanding is fox viewership is down something like 30 is that right yeah since since they got rid of him yeah and you know he is he is in a kind of almost marginalized platform relative to having a major media presence. And he's still managing to draw in numbers like that. And it just gives you an idea of how thirsty people are for legitimate commentary, for people who are willing to call out these shibboleths

and point fingers in the right direction. Yeah, it was kind of interesting. I don't know if you saw this or not. I saw this one place. It hasn't been widely reported. I chose not to play it. But Jesse Waters, who took his place, and of course, they changed their lineup at Fox,

and he's got the time slot that Tucker used to be in. And he took a call from his mom, who called into the show, and she was the most domineering, uh, patronizing person, leftist Democrat, you can imagine. And it was one of the most cringe worthy things I have ever seen scolding him for his conservative views on his own program.

And he's, you know, uh, okay, mom, let's go. Now I've got one more thing I want to say to you. It was really funny.

I don't know. I mean, they were really circling the drain at Fox. It's amazing. Yeah. Well, you know, all this stuff would be funny if it weren't so tragic and weren't so dangerous. Yeah. And there's some things that we can get into.

Did you catch the news that Ford has lowered the price of the F-150 electric lightning by $10,000? So now it only costs $10, dollars more than it cost when they first introduced it it sounds like amazon prime day you know they raise the price and then drop it with a discount so that it's the same or more expensive that's amazing they're absolutely desperate my understanding is they now have something on the order of nearly a three-month inventory of these things stacked up they're sitting on dealership lots uh you know, in depots outside of the manufacturing facilities waiting to be shipped that they can't unload. And well, duh, you know, the entry price point of this thing is $60,000. And whether you like EVs or not, the bottom line is there are

only so many people who can afford to spend $60,000 or for that matter, $50,000 on a vehicle. It's just's it's not tenable purely uh as an economic proposition and even the mainstream press is beginning to cover it you know it's really starting to look like a free fall problem uh to have all these vehicles stacked up and keep in mind that we're right now already on the cusp of the 2024 model year yeah 2024 models are coming out and in five months it will be the calendar year, 2024, at which point this inventory, this massive glut, I think it's something like 10,000, just in the case of Ford's Mach-E Mustang, I think the figure is 9,700 of them are sitting

around waiting for people to buy them. So we get to the new year and these new 2023 EVs are going to be old EVs, even though they've not been driven by anybody yet. They're now used cars, and they're going to have to be fire sale sold just to get rid of them. It's a fiasco. You don't want to use that term fire sale when you're talking about an EV, right? I probably shouldn't have. Ford has upped what it has admitted to thus far in terms of how much it's lost on these things. The figure is now $3.7 billion. Wow.

On this electrified tulip craze. Maybe Disney can buy them, you know? And they can get the same lady who's run the franchises that they bought into the ground. Well, that's one of the ways they're going to try to prop this up, particularly with regard to the lightning. A lot of government agencies have trucks, and they'll use the buying power of the government, which means you're making you and me pay for it. To buy these electric vehicles to create the illusion that there's a market for these things. But even the federal government, state governments can absorb only so many of these things. You know, it's going to come to a head pretty soon, I think.

So they can make some illusory fiat currency, as much of it as they want. And then they can go out and buy as many of these electric vehicles as they want at whatever price they want to sell them for. And, you know, it's no problem. It's just one fantasy stacked on top of the other. And meanwhile, Pence says, no, we've got to have wars everywhere. It's absolutely incredible. I saw that article, at least an article, about the backlogs of the EVs.

And the other aspect of that is that they have considerably smaller than a typical backlog of internal combustion engines, which they are pushing them out of the way. That's what people want. They don't want and can't afford, as you pointed out, the electric vehicles. They talked about a Genesis luxury EV car that was $80,000. They sold three of them this last year. Yeah, I test drove one you know I mean and it's it's not a bad vehicle per se but if you look at it relative to the non-electric version of the same thing if I remember correctly the price difference is about

twenty thousand dollars wow okay twenty thousand dollars price difference and the electrified version again I'm kind of freewheeling here a little bit but i think it's it's fully charged range is approximately i think 250 something miles fully charged that's your best case that you can travel in this thing which is about half as far as the non-electric version can go so who's going to sign up for that you're going to pay twenty thousand dollars more for a vehicle that only goes half as far and because of the fact that it only goes half as far you're going of the fact that it only goes half as far, you're going to be planning your life around these recharging sessions, which you'll be doing often precisely because you can't go very far in these

things. Yeah. Who wants to do that? And then we're talking about recharging. I had a article a couple of days ago about how, and you had some amazing experiences trying uh, trying to charge your EVs that you were reviewing when it was cold. Uh, and, and now it's even worse when it's really hot.

Uh, they're telling people, uh, yeah, they don't charge very well. And, um, and not only that, but if you charge them when it's really hot, you're going to reduce your battery life. And especially if you fast charge them when it's hot. And so we had all these situations. There's one guy. I remember when you did it around the Christmas time. Um, and, uh, and it impacted your holiday trip, just like another guy who was

reviewing one and impact that he was had to cancel his holiday trip because he could never get it and said, we're waiting for the battery to warm up before we can charge it and the battery never warmed up. So you can never charge it. He couldn't go anywhere. You had a similar situation like that, didn't you, as well? I did. It's a serially compounding problem.

It's one thing creates another thing creates another thing. For example, when it's cold, many people don't realize that the vehicle is using that power to keep itself warm, because if the battery gets below a certain temperature, it can't accept charge. So it has an internal system that maintains temperature well it maintains that by drawing electrical power from itself to keep itself warm so you've got the circling the drain problem you you keep the thing plugged in so as it doesn't lose charge while it's sitting but it's burning through charge just sitting trying to keep itself warm it's you know it's, it's so, it's so Byzantine and perplexed.

Sometimes I'm reduced to stumbling and not even being able to articulate it. It's just so ridiculous. I remember James May had his park during really cold weather. James May that was with, um, uh, you know, top gear and stuff. And, um, and he loved it. He's all about it. But then, you know, the thing lost all of its charge because as you're pointing out it's constantly leaking charge uh maintaining stuff and he couldn't just jump start it he had to take the all the battery pa the car body panels off so he

could get to the battery it was amazing he did a video about it he said look i've got to completely deconstruct this car to get the battery and i I was talking about, and now they come up with this thing about hot stuff. It turns out that really hot weather is actually worse for it than really cold weather. I said, so what these things are that we should start calling them Goldilocks vehicles, right? Sorry, the picture's got to be just right in order to do this thing or you're not going to go anywhere with it. And then they're telling people the same type of stuff they did when it's really cold. Don't use your heater because it's going to use a lot of electricity so now they're telling people when it's really hot don't use your air conditioning car comes first

the car is first you know the the home turf of the electric car is southern california that's where all of this began and if you live in la or san francisco a place where it's temperate you know it doesn't generally get too very san francisco a place where it's temperate you know it doesn't generally get too very hot or too very cold it's relatively temperate most of the driving is relatively flat uh and your distances are relatively short uh you know it creates this distorted impression of reality we you know we found out last winter i personally found out when you take one of these things out when it's 15 degrees outside uh your range will drop by anywhere from 20 to 40 percent depending on on the situation and then it takes significantly longer to recharge it

because batteries just aren't that efficient when it's very cold outside and it's just it's it's just one thing after another thing after another thing and they're not telling people they're not leveling with them i pointed out in an article that i did back in december about the lightning i you know i like to read through the owner's manuals that come with the vehicles that I get because I often find revelatory things in there and right there in the Ford manual it tells it advises people who own this vehicle uh to limit the amount of fast charging that they do because fast charging uh is hard on the. They use the word health. It's hard on the health of the battery. And what they mean is that regular heavy discharging and fast charging

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an electric car battery to suffer about a one to two percent loss of its charge capacity each year even under optimal conditions one to two percent%. So, uh, let's see after, after 10 years, you're probably, you're going to have lost, uh, 10% of the range the vehicle came with. Wouldn't there be an upwelling of outrage if you bought a Corolla, a non-electric Corolla and, you know, by the time it was 10 years old, you'd lost 10% of how far it could drive. That's right. Yeah. And your fuel economy and all the rest of the stuff. Yeah.

It is interesting, isn't it? And you talk about cost of replacement. There was a story this last week about somebody who had a Rivian vehicle that they paid 80 some odd thousand dollars for, and they got an offender bender. And, you know, first the insurance adjuster for the other company says, eh, it'd be about $1,200. And they take it to a certified repair place and say, no, $42,000 or $41,000 or something like that. It's going to be half the price of the vehicle because they've got to take all this stuff apart to get to it.

Kind of like the James May thing. But then also there's these minor accidents where you've done something to compromise the battery. And you may or may not realize it. If they do realize it and they you know see the batteries compromised it may be you know totaling the vehicle who knows but uh you could have a situation where maybe it's damaged these batteries and the thing becomes uh very very dangerous we're seeing this happening all the time as a matter of fact when i talked about the goalie lock stuff i had a listener who said why don't you call them time bombs you've

been calling them time bombs in the past it And it's like, yeah, I know. I mean, you know, we talk about the, the lithium battery electric scooters and how many fires and people have died and just in New York city from those types of things. We see the buses in Europe that have caught fire in France and in Germany, Germany burned down an entire bus station. So they said, all right, let's, you know, take these things away. We don't want to use them anymore. And in Canada, uh, they were having problems with it. So they said, we're going to take the batteries out and put diesel engines back in them. Uh, so we have all these

issues about the battery and yet our government is so adamant about the battery. It's like Trump with the MRNA shot and Fauci and Biden, you know, you got to have that MRNA. You can't have anything else. You got to have the MRNA. And that's a very telling thing, isn't it? When they've got one solution to their crisis that they've created. We know that that was what they were trying to do in the first place, wasn't it? People need to understand that in the first case, there's that, that inherent fire risk, even if the battery case is not compromised, it's just built in. It's the nature of lithium ion batteries. Now, if you're in an impact, as in the case of that Rivian, how do you tell, how do you establish whether the case

has been damaged, whether there's been any compromising of the structural integrity of it and the thousands of individual cells within that battery? And the answer is, realistically, you can't. What are you going to do? You're going to take this thing out of the vehicle after, as you say, disassembling the vehicle, and then you're going to have a very expensive technician disassemble this battery and examine each individual cell. Of course not. What you're going to do is out of prudence and due diligence, you're going to throw the thing away and get a new battery. The problem is that the battery's 40,000 bucks. And the really criminal thing about this is that you and I and everybody else who does not have an EV are going to be made to subsidize this. Because the insurance mafia is not going to allow just the people who bought EVs to pay this because then they wouldn't be able to afford to cover their vehicles.

What they're going to do is spread the costs of all of these losses across everybody who's forced to buy insurance. Wait and see what happens. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, absolutely. And I think some of it is particular to the EVs. I think some of this is due to perhaps even maybe Rivian being a new car company. They don't know or they don't care about what repairing the stuff is looking like, right? This is probably something that's being shared by everybody, kind of a planned obsolescence.

You know, we're going to make it so that it's not really repairable and we really don't care. You've seen that with really expensive cars in the past, you know, with some sports cars that have carbon fiber tubs and, you know, they get hit from one side. Well, it's just total it, you know, because you you've now, this is, this is, that's been true of specialty cars for some time. And you know, it kind of goes territory when you buy a specialty car. But what they really want, I believe, is to have everybody get on the treadmill of serial debt, serial payments. They do not want people to buy a car and pay it off and own it, and then potentially drive it for 15 or even 20 years. They don't want that. What they want is a vehicle that basically becomes functionally useless or compromised by about eight years, and ideally before that, and then you have to go out

and get another one. Remember, these EVs are not going to be on the used car market for all the reasons that we've talked about. A four or five-year-old EV, let's say, used EV with a battery that's lost 50% of its charge is essentially worthless. Who's going to buy that? Nobody. You know, the used car market is going to be greatly affected by this EV juggernaut if EVs become the only kinds of vehicles that people are allowed to buy anymore. And, of course, that's one of the reasons why that is the only type of car that they want you to be able to get because they don't want people to have cars, period. Going back to 1970, you know, the first day there, you got all the hippies out there

yelling, uh, kill the car, kill the car. This has been, you know, their goal, regardless of where they think we're going to go into global warming or global cooling or whatever, or there's a pandemic, we got to kill the car and they got to kill the car for future pandemic lockdowns as well, because that was our escape hatch from their tyranny. So it's sorry. Kill it and control it. You know you know electric cars we've not discussed this before yeah they are particularly amenable to being controlled wirelessly uh because they are generally hooked up or uh connected is the word uh to the manufacturer uh through which they get these

updates over the air and you know it can be updated to just not not accept charge or not start or not work so uh let's say there's another pandemic and they decree another lockdown well all they have to do is almost literally throw a switch you know and and and make it so that you're not able to drive the ev because even though it's in your garage they're the ones who have control over it yeah yeah and it it is a surveillance aspect where they're putting into the cars, not just EVs, but all the cars. And they will be doing it with EVs as well. They're putting facial recognition in. They're now talking about, and you've got several manufacturers who are talking about putting this in.

We're not going to unlock the car unless the car recognizes you. We're not going to turn it on unless it recognizes you. All of this stuff is going to be incredibly expensive. It's not being driven by what consumers want. It's being driven by government demands because they want to make everything a government granted privilege. Everything has to come with a biometric identification. And so they can know where you are and control what you do and where you go.

That's, that's a big part of it. And all of these automobile manufacturers. Are playing along with it. So they're allowed where you are and control what you do and where you go. That's a big part of it. And all of these automobile manufacturers are playing along with it. So they're allowed to do business. They're going to play along with all of this issue. But they've got to kill the car or they won't have the kind of 15-minute city and smart city controls that they want to have on people. Yeah, America was unique in all the world in that the average guy, average person was able to afford a car from the time of the Model T all the way up to our time. And that's something that generally speaking, people who live in Europe, certainly people who lived in Asia, Africa, average people didn't get

to drive their own personal car. They didn't have a garage. Most of them don't have a single family home. Most of them live in an apartment in an urban hive somewhere. And that's what these so-called elites, these technocratic people, these overlords would be overlord people. That's what they want for us. You know, the sad thing is that they have conditioned a lot of the up and coming generation, young people to regard that as a good thing because they've taken away to a great extent the hope that that used to be there for for kids coming up to have a car and then to have a house and then to raise a family in their house because they've made the cost of all of these things so prohibitive that a lot of you know you talk to kids and they'll tell you and they're not wrong that they've given up on the idea of you know the american dream having a home, a single family home and a car

and all of these things. They just don't think it's something they'll ever be able to have because of the cost of it. So what do they do? They stay home and they live in their parents' house and they play video games. Yeah. But a lot of them. Yeah. It is truly amazing. And I was going to put together a bunch of pictures. I went back and, and looked at what travel was what travel was like 60 years ago on planes versus what they're doing now. Because there was several stories that came out about how they were making the plane seats narrower and narrower and cramping it more and more and fitting three seats in the space of what you used to have two seats just a few

years ago. I went back in the 1960s, found a bunch of shots of Scandinavian airlines and they had wide aisles. They were rolling out these massive, uh, uh, plates of charcuterie and big, uh, uh, cuts of meat. I mean, it looked like Fred Flintstone was eating this stuff. I mean, gigantic, uh, gigantic uh leg of uh you know that they're carving up for people and everybody is there in a suit and tie instead of their pajamas i look at it and i isn't it amazing uh how our society has rapidly declined

and declined in the direction that we already see in china you know used to be kind of a joke that people in china would wear pajamas everywhere because that's all they could afford. They were completely controlled. And when we look at the cities that they're living in, and when I was in China, what we saw were people being packed into high-rises. Those high-rises are essentially like your 15-minute city. It is like a smart city where they can control everything. They're living in factories in many cases, slave labor,

slave factories like that. But even in the rural areas, when we got out of the city, people were living in what was essentially storage sheds that we would have here, you know, three concrete walls and a metal roof and you've got a garage door that opens up and that's their entire house. And so the family during the day, at least, uh, to, uh, keep from, uh, you know, being too hot, they didn't have any windows or doors. They would have to raise the entire garage door. So they got a three-sided house, very tiny, all their stuff in there.

And as you drive past them on the road, you just see everybody sitting in those little houses there. That's what they want for us. They, and they're getting there very rapidly. You know, when you look at Biden demanding that, uh, what was it, 60% of the cars have to be EVs by 2030? We're looking at like six years away. What do you know about the cycle? Tell us a little bit about how that's going to affect the cycle plans of the automotive companies. I mean, they're already working on the cars, or will be soon, that they're going to be having on the market in six model years from now.

What we're talking about is a reversion. America had achieved a degree of affluence for the average person. Working class people, unprecedented in the history of the world. Working class people could afford a home. Working class people could afford a car. Airplane travel used to be a really amazing experience. Now you've probably heard about the WEF, and I think even the British government has officially gone on board with this.

But in our near future, you'll perhaps be allowed to take a plane trip once every maybe two or three years. Yeah, every three years of less than 1,000 miles. And that's coming from C40, which began as 40 as 40 cities and it was like london and new york were starting this thing you know bloomberg in new york and sadiq khan putting this up but now they've got almost 100 cities that have signed on to this and that's a radical thing you should point out one flight every three years less than a thousand miles yeah now with regard to cars it's a similar thing in that we're going back 100 years years more than a hundred years we're going back to the era when a car was a luxury item an indulgence uh it was something that the very rich could afford but the average person could not afford i i did an article a

couple of weeks ago where i mentioned that that tv show which i liked a lot downton abbey remember downton abbey i never thought yeah it came on after we stopped watching TV. We moved in 1996 to an area where we couldn't get TV reception, not PBS, not anything, no cable, nothing like that. It was great. It was a very liberating thing, but yeah, I missed that. Downton Abbey. It's about late Victorian England and it focuses on the family of an Earl. And, you know, they live in a castle and of course, uh, you know, the Earl has

several cars, his servants drive them for him, you know, the Earl has several cars. His servants drive them for him, you know, but the servants get to walk. You know, the average person does not get to have a car. And that's what's happening. And why it's happening, in my opinion, I think that there's this really sick element of sadism that's going on. And what I mean by that is it's not enough for these ultra rich people to have very nice things which nobody would begrudge somebody who hasn't worked hard and earned money let them happen i don't care that somebody's got a porsche let them have a porsche that's great if they bought it but they are only happy if they have everything and we have nothing so you know it's not enough that they have

a porsche uh it's everything that you don't have a camera you see yeah that's what they want they want it's not enough that that they live in a 10 000 square foot castle or mcmansion it's that you can't have a 2 000 square foot home yourself that's what is driving a lot of this you know they want to re-establish the distinctions that were that were vitiated to a great extent in everyday meaningful ways uh by the prosperity that was engendered by when america was a free country and a working-class guy could afford to buy a single-family house and could afford uh to buy a car and to take care of his family without his wife having to go work in order to make it viable that's right i remember back in

the 1970s and when i was still in, my dad used to subscribe to Businessweek. And so I'd read the articles about what was happening with that. And one thing that stuck with me more than anything I ever read in that magazine was a guy talking about the difference in terms of attitude in America versus Europe. He said, in Europe, if we see somebody who's got... At this year's Cheltenham, glory rests in the lap of the gods. Curses. Alas, our hero hasn't placed. But there are still divine offerings up for grabs,

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Where he says, but in America, if you've got a really nice car like that, he said, the people look at that. It's like, wow, look at that. Someday I'm going to have a car like that. Right. And it was that reason why class warfare did not work for, you know, the weather underground and Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorn and these people. And it's why they turned to race war in this country because the class warfare didn't work.

It was ingrained in people's minds that they could, they had upward mobility if they worked hard and did something that was good today. We want to destroy all that. We want to allocate spaces in the university spaces in the corporations based on your skin color and other things that are immutable, you know, your sex or your imagined sex or whatever.

That's what we're going to base this on. It's not going to be based on merit are immutable, you know, your sex or your imagined sex or whatever. That's what we're going to base this on. It's not going to be based on merit. And so, you know, we've completely destroyed all of that. And as you're pointing out, you know, people used to be able to afford a car. It was something that Ford wanted to happen. You know, he said, I want my employees who work on the line. I want them to be able to afford one of these things. You look at the attitude that these guys have towards their employees today.

They want to kill their employees. They want to spy on their employees. They want to, you know, Amazon is watching every single move that a truck driver makes. They despise the people that work for them. They want to take everything from them and they want to hoard everything for themselves.

That's what we have here. And it's going to engender class warfare they don't realize that but you know they're also pushing race war at the same time i think one of the great ironies of our era is the juxtaposition between our era and if you go back you know 100 years to the so-called robber baron era remember the robber barons yeah you know and the accusation of the left at that time was that these titans of industry, the John D. Rockefellers, the JP Morgans, and the Henry Fords, you know, they were oppressing the working man. When in fact, you know, whatever their motives were, maybe they were greed heads, but the point is that their activities actually elevated the lot of the average person substantially. You know, you can make, you can disparage Henry Ford all you want to. The fact of the matter is

he made the Model T and he made it available at a price that practically anybody who had a job could afford to buy. Whereas now, you've got this complete inversion where the left is the source of all of the functional and practical animosity toward the working person, the average guy, in favor of these elites. So I just find that to be an interesting juxtaposition. Yeah, you go back and look at Michael Bloomberg when he was running for president and he wrote the thing, you know, trashing farmers, you know,

and everybody said, wait a minute, farmers, they've got to do a lot of variety of things and they've got to be a master of all trades. And it's technologically challenging today as well. But if you looked at what he was having to say, he wasn't just trashing the farmers, he was trashing all of us. He was saying, you know, we had the industrial revolution. We had the, you know, where people came off the farms and we had people on the farms. And then we put people in the factories, you know, those farmers and the factory workers, those of us who are smart right now are working on how we're going to replace all of them with robots. And we just have to figure out how we're going to pacify people so they don't come after us with guillotines. That's what he said, guillotines.

And so we're going to have universal basic income, which is going to pacify people. And we're going to own everything ourselves. And we just got to figure out how to control people that are alive and how to reduce the number of people who are alive and that's their mindset with this they they are megalomaniacs they are tyrants they're authoritarians it's very concerning and you see that everybody's getting the same marching orders when you go back and you look at the the lockdowns all the rest of stuff it didn't matter whether it was trump or whether it was uh boris johnson or conservatives didn't matter whether it was Trump or whether it was Boris Johnson or conservatives. It didn't matter if it was, you know, the so-called liberals, libertarians in Australia. It didn't matter what their political philosophy was. They were all authoritarian tyrants, and they were all doing exactly the same thing at exactly the same time,

for which there was no rationale except for their power and control. That's the scary thing about it. They're all on the same page and all of these nations and political parties and politicians, they're just placekeepers and everybody's going off of this central script of global governance with corporations and, uh, you know, the, the UN and Davos. Psychologically to get back to that topic, cause I find this interesting. I hope you guys do too. You know, people like Bloomberg, a lot of these people at that, at that level, what drives it? What is it that drives their animosity? And I think, I think the answer to

that question is what have they ever done? You know, a lot of these people are just suits. They're, they're people who don't have any tangible, productive skills who haven't actually done anything that has been received in the market with approbation by their fellow man without a gun behind it yes you know so these people naturally gravitate into government where their frustrations can be imposed on people because now they have power they can't persuade they can't convince they like to use force and I have never a nice to work in Washington and I remember thinking to myself I've never, and I used to work in Washington, and I remember thinking to myself, I've never seen such a concentrated concatenation of non-entities, arrogant non-entities in my entire life. You know, if you took away their government job and their government power, what would these people be doing?

Most of them couldn't qualify to be a broom pusher at a warehouse somewhere in terms of what they can do. That's right. And I think they know that. You know, you have people like Jared and Ivanka Kushner, right? They not know that they're trust fund kids? You know, most of these people have done, as you pointed out, they've not really done anything to get where they are, except maybe, you know, bribe politicians or cut corners somewhere

or come up with something and shut down the safety measures of it so they can make a killing literally with their drugs or whatever. But they're also, I think, Eric, I think they're very much like you see the kind of paranoia with entertainers, right? Even the most phenomenally successful entertainers, I've watched this all my life, they're very, very paranoid about their latest project because they always perceive that they're only as good as their last film or whatever, their last review. And they're so concerned that they're only as good as their last film or whatever their last review and they're so concerned that they're going to lose it right and they're concerned that

there's some new star that's coming up or some new director that's coming up and it's going to do everything and they're not going to have it and so they get really incredibly paranoid and really hate their rivals and i think these people that you're talking about, like Bloomberg, you know, they haven't done anything. They know that they don't have any skills to do this stuff. And so they're very concerned that somebody is going to come along and take this stuff away from them. So we got to kill these people before they, you know, there's, if we have enough people out there, there's obviously going to be somebody who's going to come up from the masses. Well, if we're going to have freedom and a big population, you're going to have people who are going to rise up to these positions to challenge them.

So they've got to protect themselves by reducing the number of people that are out there and then enforcing totalitarian controls so that if they identify somebody who is coming up to the ranks, they can shut them down, cut their legs off at the beginning. Yeah, I think the key to this, I try to harp on this because I do think it's important is to understand that their motives are malicious. I think a lot of people, normal people, just the default position is when they, when they encounter somebody who's advocating something, well, even if I disagree with that person, they're well-intended, they may be wrong. They may not have the facts that they need to have, but they're not doing this out of a sense of malignancy. They're not trying really

deliberately to impose harm or to hurt other people. I think it's important to understand that that's exactly what's going on. Yes. I've said that many times. Look at Ted Bundy, really smart guy, looked good. How many women did he rape and kill? And he raped and killed them because he was able to gain their trust. And because they were normal people, they couldn't imagine that somebody would do the kinds of stuff that he did, right? And we do that same thing with politicians. We project our values onto them. I said the big mistake that we make all the time is failing to realize, A, how evil these people are,

and B, how powerful the technology that they are accumulating is. Their ability to do it and their willingness to do it, we don't really understand the magnitude of those two things, and that's our biggest danger. Yes, exactly. And it becomes evident when you stop to examine a particular case of an individual who refuses to acknowledge when they made a mistake, a really serious mistake that cost a lot of people harm. You know, the fact that a person can't do that, can't humble themselves, we all make mistakes. A normal person will say, you know, I messed up. I didn't mean to. I thought I was doing the right thing. I'm horribly, I'm, you

know, I'm massively sorry about what I've done and I'll make sure it doesn't happen again. No, instead, these people just, they, they continue to elaborate their lies to defend their prior lies so that they can send, sell us yet another lie over and over and over again. That's right. Yeah. We see that with Trump.

We see it with Biden. We see it with every one of these guys, right? They will never admit to doing anything wrong. As a matter of fact, it was those other people. I hired him, you know, as, as Maria Bartiromo said to him, you know, but you hired those people, yeah, they were awful. I I'll do better job next time or whatever. It's like, I'm sorry.

Uh, you've had your turn next. Uh, it was amazing. It was amazing to see this guy. It's like, well, you know, all of a sudden I'm president all of a sudden I'm president, right? It's not like he ran for it for a couple of years, but all of a sudden I'm president. All of a sudden I'm president, right? It's not like he ran for it for a couple of years. But all of a sudden I'm president and I find myself in this car with Melania and we got 250 motorcycles following us. I've got armies under my control.

You know, it's just overwhelming. It's so juvenile. It's unbelievable. And so incapable of admitting that he did anything wrong. But, of course, Biden's not going to admit it either. They know that that is a fatal weakness. They will always make two mistakes rather than admit to one. They will double down on that mistake and they will use that mistake to gain more power. They'll use that mistake. If it's an agency, they'll use it to enlarge the agency. Well,

you know, this happened because my agency is too small. So you got to give me more people for my little empire. You know, it's always that failing up you know so we've got this really difficult problem of dealing with uh pathological narcissists and pathologically psychopathic people you know how do you do that you know how do you do that in the context of politics and society it's one thing if you've got somebody who's in a mental facility and you've got a doctor there and you're trying to treat this person. But now you've got people out there who have offices in power, you know, and they control the press and they control the corporations. And we find ourselves normal people in this really just alarming and anxiety-inducing surreal world where standards, as you said earlier,

before we got on the air together, objective truth doesn't matter. Everything's fluid. Definitions are changing arbitrarily. And there's this miasma of just malevolence out there that has everybody on edge because it's real and trying to figure out how do we grapple with this? How do we, how do we deal with it? That's right. If we don't have any values, you know, we're just ships at sea without a rudder and they want that kind of chaos because that allows them to control us. Uh, it's really key.

And I think one of the things, you know, what do we do about it? As you say, well, first of all, we've got to understand who these people are. Even if we can't do anything about it, we got not live by the lie as Solzhenitsyn said, uh, that these people mean well, or that they know what they're doing. Okay. Neither one of those things are true. We should understand that by now, and we should start trying to educate other people about that and if we understand and

it was a it's just kind of a very very very very slow awakening uh that i saw throughout this lockdown you know i was doing everything i could to try to tell people this is a plan they've been rehearsing this for two decades you know this is exactly what they wanted to do with the germ games and all the rest of stuff but you know it took a while for people to understand that. And gradually, as they began to understand it, the response was, well, we're just not going to participate in that anymore. And they effectively nullified it by their non-participation. They nullified it by their non-fear. And so that's the key thing.

We need to understand that even though these people are powerful, we still hold the balance of power in our numbers. And that's one of the reasons why they are so adamant about controlling and censoring speech and the narrative, because that is the high ground. If you can control the narrative, you can stop people from realizing what the real truth is and acting upon it. And that acting upon it could be just very, uh, you know, it could be as simple as just walking away from these people and ignoring them and nullifying by that refusal to cower in fear before them and their imaginary problems. And you just cut the legs out from underneath them. And, uh, and that's the key thing I think is that we got to focus on've got to focus on information, getting around these control things.

And we need to understand that the mass of humanity, and there's a tremendous inertia involved in this. You know, it's like the Titanic. You know, we're heading for that iceberg. And you've got some guys on deck. It's iceberg, iceberg. And then finally, when you realize that the iceberg is there, if you haven haven't started changing course there really isn't anything that you can do about it that inertia is you can't turn that thing on a dime and you're going to still crash into it we got to wake people up because we're getting really close to this there they want to have their new society in place

and within six years i know it's like it flaps everything and and rebuild in six years. I think that it's a mistake to focus exclusively or even predominantly on externalities, thinking about, well, who am I going to vote for in the next presidential election? How am I going to change my local school board's policies? Not that there's anything wrong with that. That's a good thing. but i think for zolchin it's and it the change is in here in your mind in your heart and rejecting in your own soul the authority of these people and just knowing that you know these people are they're they're bad people and i reject their authority and to the extent that it's possible i'm going to defy it i'm going to i'm going to speak truth to it when people ask me something about my opinion on a given topic i'm going to be forthright and honest, and I'm going to tell them what I think. And the more that we do that, the more illegitimate the authority of

these people becomes, and it becomes harder and harder for illegitimate authority or that which is perceived as legitimate, illegitimate, to maintain its hold on power. That's right. That's what I think the long-term strategy ought to be. That's right. The real power is to get us to live by their lies, even though we know they're not true, and to keep the truth from us. And so, as you point out, it really is an internal battle. And if we know what the truth is, and even if you kind of sold your nits and said, look, I understand. Some of you, if you push back against this and you oppose it, you're going to be kicked out of your home because they own all the homes you're going to be living on the street you're going to have no job no food and all i understand that so you know if you're going to go along with this at least don't tell yourself that it's true don't live by that lie

don't internalize that lie because if you don't internalize that lie eventually it will come out and it'll eventually rub off on other people, even in a very slow process. And we've seen this happening, uh, happening through authoritarian societies, but what we don't want to have happen, it takes a very long time for that to happen. Well, we don't want to have happen in this fourth turning. Uh, we don't want to have this new technocracy totalitarian technocracy imposed on us and have to go through 70 years of suffering in order to come out on the other side you know eventually the next you know 70 years from now the people

who are alive will say all right that's it you know we've seen this thing before uh we're not going to have this anymore we don't want to go through that and we will go through it if we don't do something in the next five or six years absolutely right and it's really about the about what is happening yeah one thing that i like to do, or rather that I think it's imperative to do, I'm very committed to deconstructing language that's used and to not letting things pass. A good example of it is this term fast to describe these EV chargers. They're the opposite of fast. You know, they're using this verbiage to try to get people to accept something that is a diminution of what they have been able to take for granted for so many years.

What's fast is being able to pull your vehicle up to a pump and put a full tank of gas in that thing in three minutes. It's not fast to have to sit at an EV charger for 45 minutes to an hour to get a partial charge. Yeah, that's right. And it's really important to point that out. And of course, you know, if you speed it up, the more you speed it up, the faster your battery is going to die. Yeah, the more likely it is it's going to be a fire too. Yeah, I even had a listener who is an engineer, worked for Ford for many years,

because there's even been discussions about, you know, tracking that internally, you internally, whether the car is being fast charged or trickle charged or whatever, and recording that and saying, if you do X number of fast charges, we're going to reduce your warranty or void your warranty or something like that. Maybe you have those types of discussions. And so maybe they play games with words, Eric. So maybe what they mean by fast is the kind of fast where you don't eat anything. They starve you of energy and time, you know? I did an article the other day about the closing of a loophole. You know, I always put that in air fingers.

A loophole, you know, by is they're implying that any any action that you take to avoid uh the government controlling you and sticking his hands in your pocket you're taking advantage of loopholes you're getting away with things you know it's it's just vicious vicious etymological warfare that they're waging on people to do that you know and and the loophole in this case, of course, was the the state of Vermont would let people who didn't live in Vermont get licenses or license plates and register their vehicles, which enabled people in other states to avoid, you know,

luxurious personal property taxes on vehicles, for example, or to keep a non-running or a vehicle that you're working on, a classic car. In some states, you're not allowed to have on your property a vehicle that isn't currently licensed and registered, in which case it has to be insured, it has to pass inspection. They will come and seize it. They will take it off your property. So a lot of people in the classic car hobby in particular would, you know, mail in for a set of tags and registration from vermont so that they comply technically with the law you know they're not doing anything that's quote unquote illegal but it still characterizes a loophole and and now that loophole has sadly

been closed i've got an article on the site if anybody's interested in reading more about that oh yeah i i didn't say i didn't even know about that loophole that would have been great because it's not just the the many cases that uh, circumstances that you just talked about there, but I've also found that you're less likely, uh, unless you're living somewhere where there's a bunch of tourists, you know, like where we are or in Florida, you know, they don't, they don't worry about giving tourists tickets. I'd like to do that. But you know, if you're somewhere else, I've, I've found, um, if, uh, you got an out-of-state license plate, they don't hit you for a lot of the little tiny stuff, right? And so even having an out-of-state license from Vermont would help you get out of some nuisance types of harassment tickets that you might get if they think that you're one of their subjects in that particular state.

I didn't know about that. Well, there's another aspect of this that you might find interesting, which is tragic. I put them in air fingers quotes. My colleagues in the car press are responsible for the closing of this loophole because they wrote a number of articles just moaning about

the fact that people could get away with getting tags and registering their vehicles in Vermont to get away with not paying personal property taxes, not complying with all of the various UKZs that exist in all of these other states. So as a result of that publicity, the state of Vermont has decided to change their policy.

And now you have to be a resident of Vermont or you have to get a document from your state's DMV that says they're okay with you getting your tags and registration in Vermont, which, of course, no state can do. Wow. You talk about the automotive press and what sellouts they've become. And we see this happening with mainstream media. We've got to censor more.

You're not censoring enough. Take this person down. You had people like Oliver Darcy at CNN and point the, you know, but you know, point the finger, people say, censor this guy, you know, shut him down. But that's what it's become. You've got these journalists who don't like free speech. They don't like independent thought and they like an authoritarian government and they want to, and they're always cheerleading for the government to shut people down. You see the same thing in the automotive press. You look at, I don't even look at any of the other sites anywhere. I go to your site, look at what you're talking about with

cars, because you're talking about real cars. They talk about, you know, these hyper cars that cost several million dollars. They cheerlead for everything that the government wants in terms of electric vehicles and total surveillance and control of your vehicle. They have become completely captive to the government agenda. It's really disgusting. So I love your site, epautos.com, because people can go there. They can get real reviews of real cars that are out there and also the analysis of what is happening to our freedom

because mobility is a big part of freedom. The two things are very intricately linked, and you get that. These other people don't. it's amazing to see that you you got an article before we run out of time uh tell us a little bit about the challenger black ghost because that's a picture but that was really a nice looking challenger one of the nicest looking ones i've seen tell us a little bit about that car and what is that well to it it's the last hurrah. You know, as you probably know, the Challenger and its sister vehicle, the four-door Charger, as well as the Chrysler 300, are being forced off the market. Sorry, I was telling Travis.

They're being forced off the market. So they're trying to go out with a bang. And this is a pretty big bang. The Black a limited edition limited edition version of the challenger it has an 807 horsepower supercharged v8 uh it's i was privileged to get it get my hands on this thing and drive it for a week wow and it was it was it was a very bittersweet thing for me because you know i i remembered reading when i was a kid and this is back in the 70s i read an article and it was called it shall not pass this way again and it was called, It Shall Not Pass This Way Again. And it was kind of an encomium to the very last of the big engine Pontiac Trans Ams, which you'll probably remember. In 1979, that was the last year that Pontiac was able to offer the

400 cubic inch big V8 in that car, which had been effectively forced off the road by the same sorts of things that are forcing cars like the Challenger off the road. So I just, I, you know, wistfully remembered that article that I read when I was probably 12 or 13 years old and thought, here I am, uh, you know, now I'm in the position of being able to get my hands on what is going to be, you know, the last of the line. We'll never see these things again. It shall not pass this way again. And it's just very sad. You know, I, know i i saw your article there and i read it and i didn't realize that um the pontiac trans am had a bigger engine than the corvette did at the time i thought that was the same same corporation running this stuff you know and the corvette's like supposedly their flagship

sports car but the trans am had the bigger engine in it i didn't realize that well and that's one of the reasons why that car was just about the most popular car of its type back in the 70s because it was special it was something different and it's the same thing today the challenger is extraordinarily popular because there's nothing else like it yeah you know it's a big hulking wonderful car uh it's got this gigantic engine you can get it with the super charger but you know the camaro and mustang fine cars, but they're just not the same thing as that. And now Dodge is going to get rid of this car that people love, that they're lining up to buy, that they can't build fast enough to meet demand. They're going to get rid of it in favor of a battery-powered appliance

next year to placate the government. Doesn't that tell us everything? That's ESG in a nutshell there. And of course, you know, it's an appropriate name to call it the black ghost because they're going to ghost these cars. That's right. You know, they're, they're, you know, walking dead and, and they don't care at all what their, their people are looking for. And they've got one customer that they want to please, and that's the government.

And it's the global government that they want to please. That's why you see all this stuff like, um, you know, Bud Light and all the rest of it, they have nothing but contempt for their customers, uh, let alone their employees, you know, like we're talking about Henry Ford and how as well, I want to make sure that my employees can afford this car as well. No, they don't even care if their customers can afford the car or anything else. They they've got one organization that they want to please. And it is just amazing because you see so much money that has

been sucked into Washington. I was talking about, you know, when, when the Santas, uh, uh, had his report and he had, uh, I think $20 million that he had in donations or something like that over a period of time. And the same period of time, he got $130 million in a pack that was supporting him. And so you think about that, that's 150 million dollars going back to the 2000 election uh al gore criticized george w bush for all of his combined spending of uh you know packs and everything else was 100 million dollars and al gore said i only spent 70 million dollars and here you have just

one candidate who is almost there not to knock him i mean that's the what this has happened but when you look at how much money has come into this that's why they've only got one customer that's why you've got esg because they have sucked up everything it's amazing and a facet of this that's that's uh that speaks to the the degree of the tragedy this car this challenger 807 horsepower think about that that's a race car that is 80 85 percent of what a nextel cup stock car has i've driven nextel cup stock cars this car has air conditioning this car is a car you can drive to work every day this car uh produces essentially no meaningfully harmful pollution but it produces carbon dioxide that dread inert gas right so think about I mean the engineers have managed to produce this this this work of art really this this amazing thing that that

is more powerful than any kind of any car like it that has ever existed that is environmentally innocuous by any objective standard and they shut it down and they shut it down this is because it wasn't even about the the gas that was just smoke and mirrors you know because as as Toyota says, as soon as they say, we could do that, they say, well, no, we want you to do this. Thanks for joining us, Eric. Always great talking to you. epautos.com for freedom and mobility. Thank you, Eric.

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