The David Knight Show - Interview: Marsha Blackburn’s AI Agenda Sparks Constitutional Revolt

Episode Date: May 22, 2026

Monty Fritts, Tennessee state representative and nuclear manufacturing veteran now running for governor, makes the constitutional case against the Trump America AI Act — arguing Washington has no enumerated power to impose a single national framework on AI, and that every bill Marsha Blackburn has attached her name to, from the GENIUS crypto act to the Genesis AI Act, contains zero due process protections and points straight toward surveillance and digital ID. Fritts flags what's already being built: an AI data center in Arizona measured not in square footage but in square miles, consuming more power than the entire state currently uses, subsidized by taxpayer dollars so tech billionaires can profit while tracking citizens to infinite detail. Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to https://davidknight.gold/ for great deals on physical gold/silver For 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to https://trendsjournal.com/ and enter the code “KNIGHT” For high quality made in America products go to HomeSteadProducts.shop and use promo code “Knight” for 10% off your purchases Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.com If you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-show Or you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @[e-mail] App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.

Joining us now is Monty Fritz, and he is running for governor here in Tennessee. This is a race I think is going to get a lot of national attention because Marsha Blackburn is running also for governor. It's one of the reasons why I wanted to talk to you, Mr. Fritz, was because I've seen some of the things that Marsha Blackburn has proposed lately, and I'm very concerned about them in terms of AI and in terms of crypto, some things like that. Of course, she got a lot of national attention when she, asked Katanji Brown Jackson, what is a woman? That resonated everywhere, which is a good question. I've got to ask, though, what is the purpose of artificial intelligence of all the crypto bills that she has put through? And I'm very concerned about one of them in particular because the Trump-America AI Act basically is, in my opinion, anti-Tenth Amendment. I want to get your take

on that as well. So thank you for joining us. Yes, sir, it's a honor to be with you today. I appreciate you taking the time. Well, thank you. And just to give people a background, you are an elected Tennessee state representative. Is that correct? Am I represent House District 32, which is Rome County and the north half of Loudoun County. I've been doing that for four years. I limited myself when I got into this. I think career politicians are the demise of our nation. I agree, yes. refuse to be one of those.

And I think honorable people, Term Limit themselves, was happy to get out of politics. I don't like being around most politicians. I find most of them to be weak males or feckless females. I don't know how to say this other than. I'm going to turn the ring or off my phone. It's going to harass us.

Okay. I feel a burden from God to run. Mm-hmm. Good. That wigs people out when I say that. I don't care. I say this with a smile. I'll sound rough. I don't mean to sound rough.

It doesn't freak out me. It doesn't freak out my audience. They're used to hearing that a lot. So I certainly understand. I think one would do this to themselves and to their family and subject themselves to the required travel, the criticism, time away from family. And this is the mind of God to do it might not be the sharp. its knife in the drawer.

Yeah, that's right. Well, let me ask you this. You term limited yourself. What did you do before you got into politics as a state representative? Yeah, I was retired at the time. I had spent most of my work career in nuclear manufacturing. I had enriched uranium operations at the Y12 plant for a number of years. Started as an hourly employee, grew up through that.

God put good people in my pathway that mentored me along. I was a director of operations at nuclear fuels up in Irwood, making fuel for the Navy for a period of time. And then the last couple of years I'd spent at Y-12, I was a production liaison for National Nuclear Security Administration. And when Trump 45 was elected, I was offered a non-competitive appointment with the federal government. I did that for most of the four years,

Trump was in office. And had the material recovery and recycle programs and set up the Office of Stockpaw Production Integration for the government. Okay, so you're in charge the nuclear dust, as they would say, right? Yeah. Maybe you could explain to us what nuclear dust that they're trying to get at is, but let me ask you first before we get into some of the other priorities, and maybe it's a priority of yours or not, certainly is a priority of mine. When I look at what is involved in things like the Trump America AI Act, we see over and over again the idea that we're going to protect children, but it always,

seems to, which we all agree, right? Nobody would disagree with that. And yet, they seem to take it in a direction always that takes us to digital ID, to lack of anonymity, to knowing and tracking everything that everybody does, taking us to a surveillance state. That's my real concern about it. But then there's also some other issues when I look at this bill. this is going to create one set of rules for the entire country.

And we've seen this before as well, from Monsanto with Clifacet and other things like that. When they were facing opposition in local areas, they said, we can't handle a patchwork quilt of regulation. So we need to have one set of rules to rule us all, right? And you wind up when you go to Washington and when it's driven by the industry, you wind up with one set of rules, which are no rules at all. they get to do whatever they wish. And so as we look at the rollout of AI, and I think this is something that's going to be a big state issue, because the immediate issue is going to be

resource use, power requirements, water requirements. But beyond that, the even more important issues are going to be surveillance and identification, digital ID. What is your take on to that? How do you feel about that? I think some of these federal bureaucrats and elected people who just do what they're told by the people who have given them money. And I think that's a large part of what you see happening here. But they often use phrases like gun violence and protecting the children in our schools to disarm the public and take a wealth of credor endowed right to keep them bear arms. Shall not be infringed is clear.

And we have found ourselves going down that path for some time. That's a battle we've had here in Tennessee. The weak males in state government don't understand up for your right to keep him bear arms. The 10th Amendment is very clear. I'm not sure that the federal government has the constitutional authority and their 18 enumerated powers to be able to control all things AI. I think AI data centers are going to be detrimental and everything from the cost of our electricity

because it's going to be huge consumers of electricity. We're already in not a great place there, thanks to the feckless behavior of the government in the Tennessee Valley. We have the Tennessee Valley Authority. Love them overall, but they have not planned well to keep generating capacity up. And Congress, in their role as oversight, has failed to execute that. So about one out of four kilowatts we're using the state of Tennessee come from outside of state of Tennessee. We buy some from Duke Power, we buy some from Southern Power.

So that's problem number one. The increased competition for those kilowatts is going to, I think, impact our residents. and commercial rates in Tennessee. Oh, yeah, yeah. Past that, you start to get into our water systems and our resources. And other than what everyone knows about, you know, water for cooling and, you know, what we intake and what we discharge and what's the delta between the two, what is AI going to do to that water is all a question.

But noise pollution, frequency, perhaps frequency pollution in whatever electromagnetic field or whatever field is maintained in these large data centers, I think can be problematic. I think that that capacity to store data from everything we say, do, and purchase is a great problem. And so we just allowed our nation to be invaded by foreign cultures who hate our Constitution and hate our God. And we saw an illegitimate Joe Biden encourage that, right? And probably some on the Republican side, we're in on that too, but definitely a Democrat thing. And now we're being invaded by globalist and world economic forum people who want to control us through the manipulation of our data. That's right.

And they want, if they can, they want to meet with politicians and they want to solicit the taxpayers' investment in their infrastructure so that they come in fully on profit. When you look at simple things like production of jobs, the mere definition of artificial intelligence is deleterious to the workforce. And so we have net negative job production by these. Sure, there's going to be assemblies and assembly and construction, but then an overall net negative job production. And they're going to want to take our money to do that. our Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development has been far too liberal with corporate welfare. I'm a believer of no corporate welfare. There's nothing in our Tennessee constitution that allows the state government to take tax dollars and incentivize business to

come here by giving them your cash if you're a Tennessee. Yeah. Yeah. That's what is. Yeah, they're going to get a lot of subsidy to put those AI data centers here as well. That's what we want to do. And that's still tax dollars. I mean, even if it's not a direct check, that goes to them if it's a subsidized payment in lieu of taxes or something like that, it shifts the burden back onto the taxpayer. So they want the citizens of Tennessee and other states. And I'm concerned about Tennessee. They want the citizens of Tennessee to fund their infrastructure investment

so that they can make lots of money and track us to infinite detail. I'm opposed to that. I agree. We should not one red cent of Tennessee dollars bringing those businesses in. And as a matter of fact, I think we do have the constitutional right to oppose that infrastructure. Quality of life in Tennessee and our primary industry of agriculture stands to suffer greatly from this. Because I understand there's a facility being built in Arizona that is not in square foot measured in square foot size, but in square miles. Yeah, that's right.

Yeah. It's larger than Manhattan, and it's going to use more power, I think, than the state is currently using. So it is a massive impact. And people are looking at some of those things. They're not looking at the civil liberties issues or the privacy issues or the surveillance issues. I think it's very telling to see all these bills being introduced. And, of course, Marsha Blackburn has been part of the, let's see, it's the Genius Crypto Act, which she got involved in, as well as the Genesis.

AI Act, and now she's done another one, the Trump America AI Act. When you look at all these, there's no consciousness at all about the human rights of individuals, no protection about that, nothing about due process or privacy or surveillance. As a matter of fact, everything is targeted towards taking those things away. Well, brother, it's all the D.C. politicians. It's not just Senator Blackburn. We see Google and the Bill Gates of the world and the oracles of the world that want to take our money and take data and use it against us. Tech companies often farm our jobs out to what I would call press one for English entities. And they, you know, they have little regard for us. We have congressmen who are voting to hide the information of,

about misbehavior of their fellow congressman toward, I guess, the young people that work in our U.S. Capitol. And those elitist mentalities of I can take money from the crypto people and then, you know, carry their water for them. That's because the standard politician of today. And we're at a sad place. A few years ago, I did a resolution calling Tennessee into a month of fasting and prayer seeking God's healing hand. And I did that after I sat down and wrote a list of grievances about some of the things in our state, you know, 9,000 children at that time in state's custody, violent homes and drugs and

drunkenness and politicians and celebrities. And it become evident to me after about a year of being in politics that I'd not been it before, that we need a move of God in Tennessee, that if there is not a repentance on behalf of God's people, turning to him and turning away from some of these sinful debaucheries that we allow to take place. I'm not talking about just Epstein list. I'm talking about taking grocery sales tax

off the people of Tennessee and then building the Tennessee Titans a new stadium. Yes, I know. That is an immoral thing. That's right. And it's unconstitutional. It's immoral. And we need to call that out.

It's not popular to call those kinds of things out. They get a little bit raw. Yeah, that's been a pet peeve of mine for a very long time, all the money subsidizing these stadiums for billionaires so they can pay millionaires to play a kid's game. But if people like that, let them pay for it. It's the same thing for the data centers now. Yeah, it's going to be much worse for the data centers.

At least the football players aren't following us around and looking at everything that we're doing. You know, they kind of leave you alone, but we're not going to be left alone by the AI Dana Center. So that brings us back to some of the other issues that people have talked about in different states. Let me get your opinion on nullification. How do you see that in Tennessee?

I think that starts with no. I think that comes with an exercise of what I think are absolute rights and our Bill of Rights, including that 10th Amendment. The states created the federal government. And so often I'll hear from one of these bought and paid politicians that, well, we can't do anything about that because that's a federal law. And they completely, in my opinion, misinterpret what they refer to as the supremacy clause because it's with that clause in our constitution is referring to what's in the constitution, not that just because someone says it, it is fiat law throughout the land. Yeah, I agree. And we have gotten so far outside those, again, 18 enumerated powers, we must say no.

So we've had a great state rep for, he's been doing this for much longer than me. I've been it in four years. He's been 10. This is his last year, I think. And he's been pushing for the nullification, even to introduce a process. I don't have any opposition to the process that Representative Holsey has pushed four. I think it's a healthy thing. But I think it also starts with the backbone to say, no, we're not going to do that.

That's our money that you've taken to the IRS. We were promised that we're going to get rid of the Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Education, something that Carter did. And I'm all for that. But let's completely get rid of it. Let's remove Linda McMahon and let's go ahead and stop taking those IRS dollars proportionately into what's going into education. leave those dollars in the States. Let us spend them. And oftentimes,

I'll hear this and I'll stop, the long answer. I will hear from my colleagues here in Nashville. Well, we can't do that. We won't get the federal money. I'll tell you, brother, there's a, that first, the federal government has no money. That's ours. They printed it.

And if we come down to a constitution of our, or not a constitution, I come down to a question of our Constitution and our creator endowed rights and dollars. That should be an easy decision, that men of conscience would stand up and say, no, we're going to, we're going to follow the Constitution. We're going to oppose this ridiculous rule. We have found ourselves, I think, brother, at a point, again, there's a great need for repentance in our nation. I heard a young lady speak recently, and she was applauding President Trump for standing up against. it's males in female sports.

And I support that as well. But isn't it a shame that we live in a nation that we have to depend on a politician to do that? There is no acceptance by any father, grandfather, uncle, brother, cousin, whatever that should allow a man to disrobe next to a female. It's not a man. It's a male. Maybe even steer, not a bull.

But allow them to disrupt next to a female and no consequences for that. Yeah, that's right. I don't mean to be ugly, but we've hit such a point of weakness in America that we're always looking for somebody to rescue us. Yes. And God's calling us to stand up and be men. That's right. And look to him for rescue as well and for guidance, not to politicians.

I absolutely agree with you on that. And, you know, getting back to the money issue and the Tenth Amendment issue, doesn't it begin? And I think Bud Halsey was part of it. of this saying, you know, we're not going to take the government's money when it comes to education because if they fund it, they're going to control it. They use that money to bribe and to blackmail. Once you get used to taking that money, then the blackmail kicks in because it's like, if you don't do what I say now, I'll take that money away from you. So I think it really kind of begins with the political will to stand up against taking the money, doesn't it? It does.

There's an old maxim or proverb, and I don't know who to credit for it, but overtaxation is the first and most effective form of bondage. We see that in Nehemi chapter 5 all the way into today. As a matter of fact, one might argue we're taxed more heavily today than the people in Nehemi chapter 5 were. Oh, I think much more, yeah. What they said to Nehemi, we've had to sell our children off into bondage to pay the king's tax. And Nehemi says to them, I became angry and I contended with the number.

nobles. Two or three things there. One is, in America, there are no nobles. The only king is Jesus. We have residents. We have office holders, but we the people are the authority. We grant that authority. When we allow government to take more money from our pockets than what they should, that becomes the fuel for their tyranny. We must stop that. And it happens in the state. It's not just a federal thing. It's out of control federally. In Tennessee, the average Tennessee pays $4,500 to $4,700 a year in state and local taxes and $15,700 a year in federal taxes, IRS taxes. So we've got to work out $20,000 of salary, and that's about a $50,000 average salary before you start keeping any money, before you hit a break even. That means we're going into May. That's unacceptable. And it

fuels these machines of bureaucracy where they become redistributors of our wealth. Our founders never intended that. Think roads are important. Everybody benefits from them. Public education is important. Our Tennessee Constitution, Article 11, Section 12 says we recognize the inherent value of education. Our founders recognize that. You and I recognize that. But if we allow ourselves to spend on everything, including that corporate welfare of new stadiums and new AI data centers, there's no end to it because government has an insatiable appetite for your dollars and for my dollars. That's right. We must put them on a diet. That's right. Absolutely right. And when we're talking about the amount of money that is being spent, you've spoken to the fact that the

expenditures here in Tennessee have been growing at a very fast rate faster. You say than the federal government has. Talk about that a little bit. What has happened? In 2019, Governor Haslund's last budget request was $37.5 billion. Last year, for 25, 26, the budget were currently operating under. There was a, the request from Governor Lee was $59.5 billion. A $59.8 billion budget passed. I voted against that budget.

It had corporate welfare in it. It was a decreased Tennessee veteran spending. I could not support it. But that's a 59% growth in six years. This year, the budget request from the governor is $58.3 billion, down a million five from the request for last year. But the continued collection of revenue in the state in the projection summary that comes out with our budget said it was down from $64.1 billion.

So that meant that the projection in early March was we were going to collect about $64 billion. So that outpaces the growth of our national debt that Senator Cairns had a part in growing for the past 25 years. You know, shame on these senators who won't vote, whether you like Rand Paul or not. Cap the doggone budget. Yeah. Cap the deficit. We have to do that. The reason there's such an uprising to do this whole Article 5 thing amongst lots of people is because the,

These politicians are in, many, not all, but many are enriching themselves because they're laundering our money through not only the halls of Congress, but through foreign nations and getting a kick back to them. Yes. These, I'll say it, the folks that you look at in Congress, whether it's McConnell or Pelosi, these aren't the geniuses that were just brilliant in how they traded. And we struggle to stop that. Yeah. But we struggled to stop sending millions of dollars weekly to the Taliban. And I have homeless veterans living under bridges across the state of Tennessee. And it is not our constitutional responsibility to build them new houses and provide from everything.

But we can't care for them. We can't help them recover from the state of homelessness. But I have a hard time getting money to do that from the state or the federal government in my state, yet we send money to these other places. It's amazing a sense of priorities, isn't it? Budget must be the first party. Let me just give you this in the budget this year. I voted against the budget again this year because I think, again,

that we're going to continue to collect to 64.1 is a problem. That means we're going to continue to spend, and the, and the legislator only voted at 59.8. but gasoline costs in the state of Tennessee in July of last year were 10 months ago, were 272 per gallon on average. This year, this week, they're 417 per gallon. That's like a 53% increase.

So there's a letter going to my speaker and all my colleagues and to the governor and to the lieutenant governor, it may have already gone out, asking us to come back into special session if necessary to suspend the 26 cents gasoline, 27 cents diesel, and the four cents grocery sales tax because we have neighbors in Tennessee that are financially upside down much more so now than what they were even a year ago. And if we've collected to meet that budget, then let's stop collecting from the people for a moment of time. We'll see how that goes. This year's budget had $20 million for a nonprofit Nashville Zoo,

$5 million for a nonprofit Knoxville Zoo. I love the orangutans and I love the elephant. It is not your responsibility as a taxpayer to pay for a nonprofit. Let your ticket price for admission into the zoo make that payment. That's right. Let private investors put equity into those nonprofits and not force it from the taxpayer because every dollar that was taken of those $25 million for zoos in this year's budget was in essence taken at gunpoint. Because if you don't pay your taxes, you lose your property.

That's right. And when we talk about things that are basic that people are looking at like roads, for example, I think Bill Lee started getting into this toll road path that he started following down, arguing that we can't afford to build the roads, you can't afford to repair the roads. because we've got different priorities, don't we? And so we're going to have to put tolls on that. Now, I moved here three years ago, four years ago now. And one of the things I liked about Tennessee was that it was one of 14 states that didn't have toll roads. And then Bill Lee started putting them on. What is your position on that?

Do you think we can pay for the toll roads if we don't pay for the zoos? Well, I voted for the Transportation and Modernization Act, because wording in it and the presentation of the bill was that that was, that was not going to be first toll because a toll road means that you have to get from point A to point B you have to pay that cost to get there. Florida uses those across rivers and canals and all that kind of stuff, using a lot up north. I would not be in favor of a toll road. If within the current boundaries of state property, which was the way this was marketed, and there was not going to be a further exercise of eminent domain, because that's out of control in my state,

that we can have investment and you can pay a nickel per mile or whatever it is to go faster. I don't have any big objection to that. But I will tell you, in that same bill, you know, that 26 and 27 cents per gallon is what is supposed to take care of the roads. Now, when we have road projects that are 40 years old and 25 years old in the state of Tennessee, we're not managing projects. We're creating jobs programs. That is not the focus of T-DOT. We need to recalibrate that.

Tell me how you measure me, and I'll tell you what I am. And right now, our measurements in performance of road projects is broken. We're getting an F when you've got 40-year-old road projects in Tennessee. But that bill also put about $100 per year on electric vehicles like Tesla's, all-electric, plug-in electric vehicles. so that they're contributing to the roads. Like if you drive an internal combustion vehicle, you get that at 26 cents per gallon, actually 27.4, but 26 cents per gallon gas tax.

We put that on non-plug-in hybrids. And so I ran a bill this year to pull that part off. And I tried to explain to my colleagues that it is the purchase of gasoline in a Toyota RAV or Camry or Honda CRV. that produces the electricity and charges the batteries and those non-plug-in hybrids, that they cannot be plugged in. We said this, well, we talk to T-DOT and they need the money worse than you do. Yeah, yeah, and that's the attitude that we see over and over again.

The reality's broken on other people's money, brother. We need to calibrate that in Tennessee. You know, we look at budgets and the escalating budget here in Tennessee. We look at the escalating deficit, and before the election, we'll be over $40, trillion dollars in debt at the federal level. And so, you know, people that I have been talking to here in Tennessee, Senator Frank Nicely, former senator who passed away last year, he was working very hard in terms of gold and silver and making that legal tender here. What do you think about that? And what would you do as governor to make that happen? I think I'm fully supportive of it.

Representative Holsey carried that same type of legislation. We actually got a portion of that passed through the House this year, it didn't make it through the Senate. I think that there should be an option for that. I think that many of these globalists are pushing, and I'm not trying to be offensive if you're into the crypto markets. But I don't, not only do I not understand it, I don't trust it. I don't either. I think it's a pump and dump. Personally, that's my take on it. But I'm very concerned about it, especially when we look at, you know, we fought against CBDC and we raised people's. understanding of the dangers of a digital currency. But the reality is, is that we come in with

this stable coin that's being pushed now. It has all the dangers of a digital currency in terms of surveillance, in terms of being able to stop you from being able to make a transaction if they don't like you for some reason or the other. The only difference is that instead of it being run by a central bank, it's being run by some friends of the politicians. And so I'm very concerned about that as well. And at the state level, once this all started kicking off, we saw some states where they were trying to change the UCC code to make CBDC acceptable form of payment. And that got stopped. In some states, like in Florida, they pushed back against that directly and said, no, we will not allow CBDC as a, to be accepted as UCC code. Nevertheless, it seems to me like

they have done essentially a relabeling, a head fake, to push forward the stable coins. What do you think about that? I think that I use a card far too much, a debit card far too much, because it is convenient. And we have relied upon that convenience. And it's put us in a place where we've become accustomed to that. When you have cash in your pocket or you write a check, you spend your expenditures and no one really sees it ahead of time or even instantaneously. instantaneously as to what's taking place in the transaction. Everything that we do that has any electronic basis to it

puts us subject to greater control by these tyrants. They have determined around the world and the tyrants here in the United States how they can enrich themselves and usurp control over us. It's much like that committee chairman that said, we need your $100 more than you need it. That same mentality on your liberty. That same thing that you opened up with when you said, you know, we talk about we've got to save the children, so we've got to put regulations in. And that's a seductive slope, right? It is. And I mean, in a good way, not in a bad way, because we all want to do the right thing by our children. But oftentimes we find ourselves getting down, lured into that path because we are trying to prevent a crime before it takes place. Really? Think under our Constitution, and under God's economy of justice,

you discourage the crime or the sin by fear of the consequences after you committed. And we've gotten shallow on consequences for sin and crime, and we have gotten deep on trying to be a nanny state that protects one another from the latest virus by asking us to take a shot or a jab or, or the latest armed thug by if you'll leave your firearms at home, maybe they'll leave theirs at home. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, once we go down that path of pre-crime, and as you point out correctly, we don't actually punish crime after the fact, and yet we really focus on pre-crime.

It sounds like that's going to be a smart thing, but we know how in practice that operates. And so when we look at the crime of indentured surface, which is what we're talking about here with the taxes and the deficit budgets. One of the things coming down the road, I think, in all these states, I think we're getting ready with the oil situation that's happened with the Iran war and the fundamental inflation that is being baked into everything. In addition to the policies of the Federal Reserve, in terms of money printing and interest rates, we now have this other factor here.

We've seen this movie before, and so there's going to be a massive amount of inflation. And I think what people are going to start to see is how that's going to be reflected in property taxes. Talk a little bit about property taxes. How do we protect people from losing their homes with property taxes? Because I've seen that used by developers when I was growing up in Florida to kick people out of their homes. They were going up on property taxes and miscellaneous fees like that exponentially and using that to take people's homes for their big real estate projects. How do we control property taxes?

Most of what you and I've talked about today, not every single thing, but most of them, we've tried, I've tried to carry a piece of legislation to, to, to control this. So this is one of them. This year, my approach was stop the taxation against unrealized capital gains on our property taxes. Because see, we do appraisals or reassessments or whatever every four to five years. And so if you are native here and you have owned your house for 20 years and you paid. $250,000 for it, it's likely that that assessment's well over a half million now. And it establishes the basis for taxation, even with our next year net neutral law in place in Tennessee, where your taxes can get out of control quickly. So we attempted two things with this bill. I'm so ashamed of my Republican colleagues because they wouldn't get on board with it. They wouldn't get on board because the lobbyist and probably the governor's office told them not to. And again, shame on them for not being strong men who can think for themselves.

Because I can assure you that across the state, this was popular. So first, let's drive a stake in the ground. The bill that I carried was 2020. What the property was assessed at in 2020 or what you've paid for it since would be the value of the property. And it took that every four to five year assessment and thusly taxation against unrealized capital gains out of the equation. Secondly, if you were, and the way the bill was written, if you could prove residence in your home for 10 years, if you were delinquent in taxes, you couldn't be evicted.

I'd like to see that one year, right? Yes, yes. We were trying to write something that we had a chance of getting past. I couldn't even get that past. And some of it, we've stung some of these people's feelings because I'm running for governor and some because I've called them some of them weak males. but it's the truth. And it is unacceptable. The most vulnerable in our population,

when we have idiots in D.C. Who can't control the budget and we have seniors living on fixed incomes, this is not going to end well for their monthly draw if something isn't course corrected. That's right. Right. In D.C.

And so those people are most at risk, to be evicted by their county government and have their home sold on the courthouse steps. That's unacceptable. Intent. And so we tried to do both those. As governor, my intent is to push that. And to make these people feel so badly about how they're trying to step on their fellow citizens that will pass it.

I think that's a winning issue. You know, it is something that's going to get a lot of attention. And it should be talked about because when we look at the inflation that's being baked in, that's going to be reflected in home prices. as we've already seen. It's very difficult for people who are not in a home situation. It'll be able to get into the home market. And yet the people who are in the homes, what they're going to be squeezed out with is going to be the escalation in property taxes

as they reevaluate that on an annual basis. There was a guy I interviewed in Indiana. I was running for governor as a third-party candidate. And his name is Donald Rainwater. He had a good idea, Mr. Fritz. And of course, what he was talking about was he said, let's make it like a sales tax. So you hit a 7% tax when you buy the house, a 7% of the value, and you can either fold that into your 30-year mortgage or you can pay it off 1% a year for 7 years,

and then you're done. And it doesn't happen again until you sell it again. So basically what he did was he would convert the property tax into a sales tax. But your proposal is good as well in terms of stopping the constant reevaluation of this and the unending annual tax, which is essentially an annual sales tax on the value of your home. It is.

And it's, it's, some of my colleagues, at least a couple of them have talked to me about the proposal that you mentioned there from the fellow in Indiana. And I think there's a, there's probably several ways to do this, the approach that we offered to stay in alignment with our Tennessee Constitution and not require constitutional amendment. what I was offering would have done that. And I think that for those of us who are native here, we're suffering from the fact that Tennessee is a great place to live, low cost of living relative to the other states. But even the blue state refugees who come here, if we don't correct the property tax,

the way we're doing it now, the mere fact that they're coming here and our values are escalating, they're going to find them themselves in the same conditions that they left. That's right. And so really, my new Tennessee, California, Wisconsin, and New York neighbors, love this idea. Yeah, in Florida, we would see that a lot. We would see people who are trying to escape the high taxes of New York or Michigan or whatever. And then they'd be very susceptible to, okay, you need to raise taxes for whatever this reason.

I'll go along with that. They're still pretty low. and before you know what, you're back to where they came from. But let's talk about some of the other bills that you've introduced. You were involved with what we call Kim Trails. Of course, geoengineering is really what it is. Talk a little bit about that. That got a lot of attention.

So that's one of the, probably four or five areas that I got an opportunity to lead the nation in in carrying legislation. And it is geoengineering. It is written to prohibit geoengineering specifically because I wanted to include everything from cloud seeding and stratospheric aerosol injection to carbon capture. All schemes to usurp some authority over us, either financially or legislatively or both. Yes. And so we were able to get that passed.

We had a young man come and testify against the bill in 24. and he was in favor of the stratospheric aerosol injection and, you know, and carbon capture and all that, but he didn't want us to touch the cloud seating because that's his business. He actually got the bill passed because his testimony and from the front of the committee validated all of what I was offering. None of the Democrats would vote for it that year, which is surprising because anything that we inject into the atmosphere, whether it's 15,000 or 30,000 feet. Eventually, you and I eat, breathe, or drink it or absorb.

And so I'm happy that we got that through. Teadec actually helped with that bill the first year. Governor Lee has reportedly said that we tried to carry a second bill that would have increased the authorities and delegated prosecutorial authority. And what I was told was that it was government overreach to try. to stop geoengineering, basically, which ranks up there with one of the dumbest statements I've ever heard. It's been around for a very long time, and I remember over a decade ago talking about it,

and they would have annual conferences about it. At the same time, people were saying, oh, it's not happening, and they had annual conferences, and one of the papers that I covered, the guy said, well, we all agree that we have the ability to do this. The question is, who gets to set the thermostat? You know, do we want it warmer or cooler, you know, because you have this issue at home, typically, between different people. And so who gets to set the thermostat?

It wasn't a question of if they were doing it or whether they could do it, but just who gets to decide what it's going to be. Well, it gets into the same thing that we started our conversation with today on the AI data centers. Do we want wealthy globalists or big corporations to be able to determine who does and does not get rain based on who does and does not pay for the cloud seating. We want to risk a globalist, a Bill Gates type, or one of these tech company owners, to be able to harvest their word, quote unquote, a 10 to 11% more precipitation in a Western state and suffer 10 to 11% less precipitation downstream in that weather pattern. Do we want to risk that?

It's the same concept of playing God as the AI is. That's right. So I think that God created you and I to be able to solve great and complex problems. Now, you may be a physicist and I may be a block layer, but we can solve great and complex problems together, right? And God has given us that ability. If we relinquish our cognitive ability to a machine or a system, to a structure, That is a, I think, it is a first step toward the mark of the beast.

That's right. At least it's a large step toward the mark of the beast. And we cannot allow that to happen. It is a godless thought process. It is against the laws of nature and nature's God for us to, again, relinquish our cognitive ability to a structure or a system. That doesn't mean we can't use calculators or even supercomputing. brother. But when we get to self-generating thought in a machine that we're going to allow it to tell us what the

answers are, where does that stop? Do we remove the judges from the benches? And do we just speak to a machine and let it assign the sentencing? Well, that's already begun in some areas there. Oh, you're saying with the politicians are so corrupt. We need to appeal to our AI God here. It will give us an objective answer. And, of course, that's not true at all. I heard a local radio host today, and he was, he, I won't mention his names, I'm not trying to be too hard on him, but he said, we should be using license plate readers in Davidson County, Tennessee. He said, lots of people are using them and they're effectively fighting crime. And he says, don't tell me about the surveillance stuff. They only surveil the people who are criminals. Oh, yeah, right. Yeah. And so then he goes to say this, and this is the misunderstanding we have today before God first and before.

for Constitution second. He said, the first responsibility of government is to keep us safe. No, it is not. That's right. We have Declaration of Independence. That sentence, those words, collective words, but that long run on sentence of,

we have been endowed by our creator with certain and alienable rights. Among those are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the government.

when you have to believe that to be an American, I think. That's right. If you don't believe that, I say this from time to time to get a joke. If you don't believe those words and you're a citizen, you need to repent of your citizenship and come to understand those words. I think that the highest words ever written outside scripture, I think that. Yeah. And I'm not saying they're God-breathed as our holy scriptures.

But anyways, we, the first responsibility of God, government in America is to secure your rights. It is greatly incumbent upon the individual to provide their own security. Sure, we should have borders. I often get called or referred to as a Christian nationalist. And I break that down, it is Christ and Constitution. And I'm in support of both, because I'm not going to deny him. That has harsh circumstances. Yes. And. Well, I can, agree with that. And that's the problem. You know, they come up with these terms and then they define those terms in ways that we would not necessarily define them. And so that's, you know, they throw this term out of their Christian nationalists. What does that mean? You know, and they, they define it in

a way that you and I probably would not. Well, they want to, but really the nation is the constitution. It is not the landmass. Even though we have borders, the landmass can shift. We have a Louisiana purchase and the landmass gets bigger. Right? So it is not the geographic boundaries. They're important and must be enforced. But really, the nation is the Constitution. Right.

And people struggle with that some. So I am a Christ and Constitution person. And if that means I'm a Christian nationalist, okay, those who misdefined that term and use it as some negative slang. Okay, fine. Yeah, there was just this week we had, as one of the left-wing news plays, I don't remember for it's MSNBC or if it was CNN or whatever, but you had a couple of commentators that they were, you know, talking about the Declaration of Independence. And it's like, you know, so there's this idea in there that our rights come from God. I don't know. That sounds like it's Christian nationalism or mixing religion with

politics or something. And it's like, no, that is the basis. I mean, the only thing you have other than that is to say that the government is going to give you particular things, which means that it's a privilege and it's not a right. If it's contingent, on the government granting it, and if it's contingent on your citizenship and not on your humanity, then it can be taken away or denied altogether for any reason. And so, and I'll pray I have to go in a couple minutes because I've got a committee meeting today, but I think here's where we are, brother. I think most of our politicians have become inoculated against the law.

They have become vaccinated against the Constitution. And I think that we're going to have to declare the word of an authority of God to them. And I know that sounds preachy. But if you're an American and you believe that we've been endowed by our creator of certain inalienable rights, if I have the government arbitrarily retrieve your rights from you, whose place have I taken? It is an idolatrous thing in these United States. It is building up a high place. If we allow a president, a governor, a state representative, a county commissioner to deprive you of your God-given rights without the process.

And we're doing that. We do that on gun laws and Tennessee. We did that when we declared people non-essential based on their occupations. We have done that in overtaxing people. And I think in this 250th year of these United States of America, and in, This year in Tennessee, we need a little revolution. Now, we need a revolution in our mind, don't we? Revolution of thought.

We have to renew our minds back to what our founders understood. We have become so intellectually shallow in many circles and politics that we can't deduce right from wrong. It is not just that Khatongji Brown can't define a woman. It is the average politician can't read the Constitution. That's right. Well, they don't like what it says. That's my concern with the Article V thing is like, we get the people who won't follow the Constitution and you're going to have them change it, you know, and write a different one or make it different. It's the same people, you know. So when I first got in, I'm a John Byrd Society member. I hate communism.

And I think the John Byrd Society does a great job. Yes. I do. I voted for the Article 5 thing because Article 5 is a part of the Constitution. But this, and it cost me in John Byrd's score. I've got the best John Bert Society score in Tennessee General Assembly, but it cost me a right. This year, and a good man, Jay Reedy brings some controls in for the delegates, and it's still allowed.

It's 25 or older, five years U.S. citizen, and it would allow a politician to be a part of it. I got to tell you, I look upstairs in the 7th floor and I can't name, but many senators I would trust. I look around my 99 House members and I can name on one hand of people.

I might trust. If in general, these people can't be trusted to secure your rights regarding keeping and bearing arms or over taxation, why would I ever trust them to go open up the Constitution? There is no that we can protect that. And that offends the Article 5 people when I say that, but short of taring and feathering, and maybe much worse than that. there has to be a consequence that drives a behavior of loyalty and fidelity to oath, and we're short of it today. That's right. That's right. And that's the fundamental thing. That is really what is missing from America today.

But thank you so much for bringing these issues up, and it is very important to run and to bring these issues up. And I certainly wish you the best. The primary in Tennessee is coming up in August. Is that correct? August 6 is Election Day. Early voting starts on July. 17 and run through August 1. Go to Fritz, the number 4TN.com, my website. Check us out on all the social media platforms.

We are very much a grassroots organization. I have no desire to raise the $20 million that Rose said he would do it. That's a profane thing. And that's coming from a tech person, right, who the press one for English people, right? it's easy for folks to get on Senator Blackburn because she's got such a long and dark history in politics.

Has it done anything for our rights. But look to your congressman across this state or across the United States. How many have actually stood up for your right to defend yourself? How many have actually stood up for your right to not be taxed to death? It's a great employee

and we're in trouble with it. So the last thing I'll be. to your viewers, whoever watches this, pray for this nation, pray for the leaders, pray that I'll do what's right and holy in God's eyes and whatever works out for me in this thing. Pray that I'll remember my oath to the Constitution and pray that I'll keep a servitor. We will. We will. And thank you so much for doing that. I really do appreciate it. Again, the website is Fritz with two T's for the number four. TN as in Tennessee.com. Fritz for Tennessee.com. Easy to remember. Thank you so much for joining us, sir.

best luck to you and best wishes to you. Thank you. And I apologize for the confusion on the time. My Google calendar was mixing back and forth between Central and Easter. Thank you for your question. That's the problem we have here in Tennessee, isn't it? We have two different time zones that are here. Thank you.

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