The David Knight Show - INTERVIEW Sen Niceley (TN) Protecting Food & Farms at the State Level

Episode Date: July 9, 2024

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All right, and joining me now is Tennessee State Senator Frank Nicely, and I've talked to him several times because of his efforts to try to resist things like CBDC, to try to set up a Tennessee Reserve system to help the state's financing and help people here in the state as we look at the uncertain issues around what the federal reserve is doing and to maintain our privacy uh it's very important that we have uh financial privacy with our transactions so i've talked to him about those types of issues and some of the state issues uh but i wanted to get him on again uh we've got a here in tennessee we've got primaries coming up in, it's in August, is it?

Is that correct, Senator Nicely? Welcome. August 1st. Early voting starts the 12th. Okay. All right. August 1st. So it's coming up pretty quickly.

Let's begin. I'd like to begin, since you're a farmer, I'd like to begin with some of the issues about food and farming, because these are issues that are coming out globally. But whether they're global or whether they're national, really where the rubber meets the road is at the state and local level. We've seen things get really bad in Pennsylvania. Tell us what's going on here in Tennessee? Well, the Minister of Agriculture here in Tennessee told me that this bill we passed with whole milk and scoops would probably

do more for the dairy farmers in Tennessee than anything we could do. You know how much Michelle Obama made us put 1% milk in our scoops. And she pushed the kids into yogurt, a particular type of yogurt, which I've talked about

in the past, which is done by a guy that they brought in from Kurdistan, and they set him up with a yogurt factory up in New York. So yeah, I understand where that's coming from. Yeah, she wanted everybody to have 1% milk. All the research says children have got to have whole milk. You've got to have the fat so we can absorb the calcium. So in Tennessee, I passed a bill this year to put whole milk back in our schools and dispensers, and not in these little cardboard boxes,

but put it in a dispenser where it's really cold, whole chocolate milk and whole, what you call sweet milk, you know, whole regular milk. And when you do that, even if you've got the 1% milk, if it's in a dispenser,

they drink a tremendous amount more. No one likes it in these little cardboard carts. So someone said, well, the feds, the feds will allow you to put whole milk in the dispenser, but if you put it on the tray, it's got to be 1%. So we thought we were fine. Now they're saying, no, you can't have whole milk anywhere. And I said, well, we'll ask the attorney general about that.

You know, there's nothing in the Constitution about milk in schools. So that's clearly a state issue according to the 10th Amendment. So we've got an attorney general now, a general committee, who's on our side. And I'm pretty sure we'd be putting whole milk back in our schools. And if you get these children drinking milk, good cold milk, whole milk, they'll drink it at home. But if you turn them against it in these little cardboard cartons, I never did like it in a cardboard carton with paraffin all over it. I mean, nobody likes milk like that. And so we've got to get these children drinking milk. There's the calcium, the magnesium, the enzymes, everything. It's so important. So that's one thing we did, trying to help the

dairy farmers. Another thing I did for the dairy farmers, I passed a bill that lets these bottlers label it Tennessee milk. Weigel's milk in our dog form. They put the logo on their bottle of milk. 100% Tennessee milk. They buy all the milk from one county up here in Claiborne County, the Shipley area. Shipley

furnishes all the milk for Weigel's. It's all Tennessee milk and they have a logo right on there that says Tennessee milk and Bill Weig wong said it jumped to itself three percent in one week wow people like that's great food well i want there to be local food absolutely we support a local dairy that's uh uh here and um and what i like about it is it's not homogenized you know they have to pasteurize it in order to be able to sell it which i guess it brings up another issue you know we really have seen the federal government with this bird flu narrative that they're pushing out there uh pretend that this is something that has to do with cattle and they're focusing on cattle almost exclusively uh talking about and we know this has

been a globalist agenda to get rid of meat and to get rid of milk uh one of the things that they really focused on is raw milk what is the status of raw milk in Tennessee? Well, I passed the bill several years ago that allows you to sell raw milk through the Herdshire program. I buy raw Jersey milk from Cocke County, and I buy raw Guernsey milk from Granger County, and they get a good price for it, $12 to $18 a gallon. People say, man, that's high. I say, that's about the same price you're paying for a bottle of water.

If you buy enough bottled water, you're going to pay $12. So, I mean, when milk's cheaper than water, there's something wrong in our society. So, I passed that bill several years ago. We actually have more raw milk dairies now in the state of Tennessee than we do commercial dairies. We don't milk nearly as many cows, of course, but the average raw milk dairy has four cows on Granger County. But at $12 a gallon, he can make some money. He's got a young guy. He's got a degree from U.T. agriculture, new tea, and rather than go join the milk mafia and try to sell it to the co-ops, he's just going to sell it raw,

get $12 a gallon, he can milk four or five cows and make a little money. That's good. So we've done so many things to help the farmers. I used to be able to let you labor your meat, Tennessee meat. When you buy meat at Costco or somewhere, it could come from three different continents. You know, when you buy meat at Costco or somewhere, it could come from three different continents. You don't know where it's coming from. It says USDA inspected.

That just means USDA saw it come in on the ship. But if you buy Tennessee meat, you know it was born, raised, and processed here in Tennessee with no ice in the hamburger. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah, let's talk about that because, you know, when you look at it, process here in Tennessee with no ice and hamburger. Let's talk about that because when you look at it, and I think that's why it is so ultimately important to support the local farms, which is what you're trying to do with this, and you look at their desire to try to micromanage

and control everything, like you said, with the milk. If you put the milk on your tray, it's got to be 1%. They want to try to manage everything. And they're trying to manage the dairy cows. They want to tag and track them they want to uh shut down people being able to process uh food on their own farm um are you involved with the prime act in any way i know that was something that was introduced by um congressman massey at a federal level is there something like that in tennessee well Congressman Massey, who is absolutely the best congressman in Washington, we were sitting on a

hay wagon up in Virginia, up at Potiphar's Farm. We were talking about this problem, and I suggested the PRIMAC to him, and he gives me 100% credit for coming up with PRIMAC, and he's actually got it in the Farm Bill this year in the House, and we're working on the Senate, and I think we're going to make it, but I think he's got got it in the farm bill this year in the house and we're working on the senate and i think we're going to make it but i think he's got four sponsors in the senate a

committee so i think we're going to get it what that would do that would allow tennessee farmers to retail meat that is processed in these custom houses like our local here we've got we got a lot of custom houses we have very very few USDA inspected houses. But that would let local farmers take their sale rate of two bucks, right there in Ice Kodak over towards Darriage. I do a process plan. I do a great job. You can have your animal kill there and sell retail cuts.

Now, a farmer can make a lot more money selling retail cuts than he can selling it at the stockyard and shipping it to Kansas, going to the feedlot and then have to ship it all the way back. Burn all that diesel fuel, taking it out there. Burn that diesel fuel, bringing it back. It's better just to, and it's easy

on the animal, just to process it here and cut out the middleman. The middleman wants to make all the money on farming. That's right. That's right. Yeah, and that's what I like about what you do. You come up with some real solutions, like the Prime Act, for example.

And your solutions are really focused on local issues. And I think that's really what we have to do. The Democrats have known this for the longest time. They've always said that all politics is local. And you've got local solutions. And've always said that all politics is local, and you got local solutions, and so I think that's very important. Well, it's the ivermectin bill we passed.

We're the only state in the nation where you can buy ivermectin over the counter without a prescription, and it's cheaper than buying it at Co-op. For less than $2 a pill, I can buy a 29-milligram pill for meagram pill for me if I think I'm getting COVID or any other coronavirus. It works on all coronaviruses. It'll work on this new one that's coming down the pike.

Yeah, yeah. Take one as soon as you think you're getting it. Take one a day for five days. You'll still be a little sick, but you won't die. Well, that's key. And, of course, introduced that in the senate uh at the height of all this insanity a couple of years ago uh to allow people to buy ivermectin over the counter and we had people who were losing their medical license we had pharmacists who well if you got a doctor who sends you a prescription if you feel that we're going to take your pharmaceutical

license as well that's what we're seeing across the country and you got it here locally uh you got it passed so people can get that over the counter that's really important i don't really look at that i had to help with dr sibley up in johnson city she had treated 5 000 people for free with colby with biomechan and only lost one or two who were extremely obese she swiped by it she says don't wait when you think you're coming down with take one right then yeah that's right yeah that's one of the key things i think during the pandemic that was causing an increase in in deaths the fact that they were denying medical care to people and delay to a very long long extent and then giving them things that were extremely expensive, ineffective, and unsafe, you know? And so it's the thing, being able to get ivermectin, get it early, get it cheaply, and it's very

effective. That's the one thing they didn't want to have. You, in the Tennessee State Legislature, they got a lot of attention recently for passing a bill about the chemtrail stuff. It went into effect on July 1st I had a listener in Knoxville saying well I'm still seeing still seeing these things daily what is the enforcement mechanism for people who are violating this chemtrail bill senator Sutton carried that bill and he put a

$10,000 fine in it but But somebody that's going to have to sue and actually that brings up another bill I passed this year called proper action. I passed a bill this year that gives a citizen the right to give him standing in court to sue a state agency or a county agency that's not enforcing state law. We didn't have that before that's a little bit got no attention uh intentionally i eased it through without anybody knowing much about it that's very important that really isn't right but now then you could say i passed the bill on

cursive writing where you had to teach cursive writing and the school boards of schools are ignoring it now then if a parent wants to they can sue the school board for not enforcing the law uh writing out my past one that says they have to teach founded documents of declaration of independence constitution bill of rights uh to show our children have a basic understanding of what our wonderful republic is and uh so uh we've done quite a few little things. But back on the chemtrails, I'm not sure. A lot of times you have to give, it's $10,000 fine, but we didn't save for that $10,000 win.

Now, if we were to come back next year and say the local sheriff's department is going to get that $10,000, if they identify that plane and they have a way of identifying it, that's nowhere it's going to land. And the sheriff's would go after them for that $10,000. Oh, that'd be great. Start to get the sheriff's to watch the skies. Instead of them being on the interstate, they could watch the skies to see what people are doing up there.

That'd be a big improvement. That's great. I think we were probably the first state to pass a chemtrail build. You know, they were doing it over in Dubai, and they went overboard and had this huge flood, and it just flooded out Dubai several months ago, you know. They were geoengineering the skies, trying to get some some rain they got too much rain and flooded them out so uh it's real yeah i just paid earlier earlier in the program i just played a whistleblower who used to work for the military and she was talking about her involvement in it and she was surprised when she found out that uh

the program that she was in was doing it and And so she resigned. She became a whistleblower. It absolutely is real. Well, we need more whistleblowers. We need to protect. Yeah. I mean, we've got to protect these whistleblowers. Yes, I agree. In terms of farmland, one more issue that is there is people losing it.

We've had foreign nations buying farmland. You've come on this program and talked about the trap of some of these tax credits on some of the farms. Tell us a little bit about those two things. Well, we passed the bill this year. I actually sponsored it. And we worked on it last year. And we ended up passing it this year. year we patterned it after arkansas to prevent these hostile nations like china north korea venezuela iran from buying farmland or real estate in tennessee and we actually got it passed and we patterned it after arkansas we worked closely with arkansas and got the got their language

they had patterned theirs somewhat after iowa but it's a good start. We're probably going to tighten it up as time goes on, but that's the fact that people are beginning to realize this is a problem with these farms. See, we can't go to China and buy land. You can't buy land in China, so why do we let them buy land here? Yeah. You can't even open a business in China unless you've got some Chinese Communist Party member as your business partner. When yeah i mean you can't even open a business in china unless you've got some chinese communist party member as your business partner uh when we were living in north carolina they bought uh smithfield a big big pork processor uh a lot of people were concerned about that so you know part

of your bill is to stop them from buying farmland as well as businesses uh like the Chinese bought Smithfield. Exactly. It's, you know, our big meatpacking, our three big meatpackers that pack 90% of our beef and pork, they're all foreign-owned. And then you've got Smithfield owns all the big pork processing. So we're sitting here slowly allowing these foreign adversaries to come in and buy up our country. Yeah. We need to wake up. That's amazing.

Yeah. If anybody has any questions for Senator Nicely, go ahead and put them up there. And again, Doug Alugg, thank you for the tips. Spread the word. Hit the like button. Thank you very much for putting that up and reminding people there on Rockfin, on anywhere that you're watching this, even if you're not watching it live. We'd appreciate that. Before we leave the farm stuff, one of the bills, they had a lot of people that were mocking what the Tennessee legislature was doing when they said, well, we know that with genetic modification, there's already been some papers published that they want to put vaccines in the food. People are crazy conspiracy theorists, but there's been a lot more of that, even since there was some before you guys passed that bill.

And there's been a lot more since then. Tell us a little bit about that and what the enforcement mechanism is for that. Well, Senator Hensley, who's a medical doctor and a really good, honest medical doctor. He's not controlled by Big Pharma. He's a great guy. He's one of the top conservatives in the Senate. He had this bill, and I spoke on the Senate floor and helped him with it. Because I've been reading about this for two or three years.

They can genetically modify this vegetable, mainly lettuce is what they're starting with, and then the seed from that lettuce from then on will have that vaccine in it, that mRNA vaccine in the lettuce. And it's so cheap to produce. Now they're talking about

other things. So Dr. Hensley said, hey, if they're going to sell this stuff in Tennessee, they're going to have to label it a drug and not a regimen. Because he said, who controls the dokes? Who's going to know if you get enough? Who's going to know if you get too much?

You may be a big lettuce eater and you may overdose on mRNA. mRNA changes your DNA. I mean, it's a little bit. I mean, that's a given. I've read everything I could read on this stuff, and it scares me. It really does.

Yeah. Oh, I agree. I've always said that about fluoridating the water. I said, okay, you can argue with the science of this as much as you want, but if you're going to dose somebody with something by putting it in the water supply, how do you control the dosage?

I mean, and that's fundamentally the issue there with putting it in our food and the fact that they don't ever want you to stop getting whatever this is. Well, you know, more and more cities are taking the fluoride out of their water. I mean, Columbia, Tennessee, they voted to take the fluoride out recently, and they had some left over and it was so toxic that after disposal of the toxic waste it was going to cost so much that they

just snuck in and put it in the water. Even though they passed the order to stop putting it in the water, that's the cheapest way to get rid of it. The cities in Europe, dental health is improving uh dental health is a function of calcium magnesium and your your good minerals uh and

this this whole thing on this fluoride uh it's it's bogus science yeah oh yeah absolutely and it's a kind of fluoride that you point out it's toxic that's one of the reasons these people it was industrial waste and they were going to have to pay a lot of money like you were talking about the municipality to get rid of this stuff so they came up with the idea hey instead of paying to get rid of this so we can sell it to municipalities and tell them just dump it in the water and it's a good thing for you of course i think it's much better to have uh milk uh than it is to have fluoride perhaps right you know they say the solution of pollution is dilution

so they're just going to dilute it into water and get rid of it that way but no it's a toxic waste it's a byproduct of the of a lot of the fertilizer industry yeah and other industries so no it's it's something all the time Dave

it's just it's amazing the battles we try to fight in Nashville and we win a lot of them. That's really where so much of the stuff really has to be established.

That's why George Soros put so much money into local district attorney races and to state attorney general races and it's why musk said see what he's doing you know you have a lot more effect at the local level than you do at the federal level whether you're talking especially if you're talking about the presidency but even more so than when you're talking about congress if you can get stuff done at the state level that's why i wanted to get you on and uh you know you're familiar with what's going on in different states

you guys exchange information and people really need to pay attention to what's going on in their state election, because that's going to have the biggest effect on your life. It's not a theory. Everybody lived this for the last four years. If things were better at the state level, if you had good people at the state level and things were better, you could get ivermectin over the counter instead of having doctors and pharmacists penalized for that. So the state level is very important. Talk a little bit about eminent domain.

You've been involved a little bit in eminent domain reform, right? Well, I'm a landowner and a farmer and we pay taxes on several acres and the thing that scares landowners is eminent domain these cities or counties come out and say they say oh that's a pretty farm we'll make a industrial park out of

that so we a few years ago we passed a bill where the county commissions can't use eminent domain for an industrial park this year we passed a couple of really good eminent domain bills one of them says that the landowner has standing in court he can take the county or the city in This year we passed a couple of really good eminent domain bills. One of them says that the landowner has standing in court. He can take the county or the city to court and make them prove that they need it, but can't buy it somewhere else. Then another bill we passed basically said the city has to prove that they need it. They have to prove they've got a plan to finish what they want to do. They've got to prove they've got financing ready to go.

They can't just buy it and keep it for a long time. No one wants to sell their farm for what somebody else appraises it for. I had an amendment one time that said any time the state uses an internet domain, they would have to pay three times the appraised value. And if they

that didn't affect roads and airports, but all the other things. And if they really, really need it, let them pay for it. I mean, and that would leave a little bit of taste in the landowner's mouth if he gave three times what it was appraised at. And if it's that important for every taxpayer in the county, let them all chip in a few pennies and pay the guy enough to wait and relocate and rebuild. You move a business, a lot of times the business fails. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. You don't have enough capital to get it over the hump and get your business back and going. So, since 2006, there's been four good bills passed in Tennessee that's given the property owners more rights. And three of them originated in Jefferson County with the county commission. We've got a really good county commission right now.

But three of them originated in the county commission. They sent me the resolution. I was able to pass it. And I should say three out of the four good, eminent, old old made bills originated right here in Deerfield County. Well, that's great. What about, as we've seen this type of thing, I remember when they were putting the Keystone pipeline through and it was being done by a Canadian corporation.

So it was a foreign corporation. Of course we had the Kello decision a years ago. The Supreme court said, I think it was Connecticut. They said that the, the state could take somebody's land for the benefit of another private individual so it was not so they could build some kind of a common project like a road or something like that but they could take it and essentially turn it over to another business that they liked better that was bad enough but then when you had the keystone

pipeline you had a situation and i like the idea of the pipeline the problem i had was that it was uh eminent domain and that they were handing the power of condemnation over to a corporation and not just a corporation but a canadian corporation a foreign corporation was going to be able to come in and condemn the property that they needed for their pipeline taking the property of a lot of people who had had their farm for many generations, 150 years in some cases. Is there anything like that, a prohibition against something like that in the state of Tennessee in some of these eminent domain bills? You know, I don't know that there is. If you look at a map of the pipelines in America,

it looks like America has very close lines. There's pipelines. They just go everywhere. And, you know, even though it's kind of bad, but they bury these pipelines deep enough. They farm over the top of them. You really never know that they talk about something about the public good we did pass a bill in nice what said a

recreational park is not a public good that meant that they cannot condemn your land for a recreational park that was what was going to happen up here at the hospital they were going to hospital surplus land the the hospital. They were going to put hospitals in surplus land. The hospital wanted to land on and the city was going to take that for a recreational park. And so we passed a bill that took

to define public good and we took recreational parks out of that definition of public good. So that was the big deal deal we worked with the county commission on that and uh like i say we've got a pretty good county commission right now that are at a pretty good legislature that's good but would that i'm sorry go ahead one thing we did on this gun purchase you know uh these credit cards and banks were trying to have a

special code on your transaction if you bought a gun they were going to put you on a list that you had used your credit card to buy a gun. Well, we passed a bill where they cannot do that. And that was very popular with the Second Amendment guys, which Tennessee is about as friendly a Second Amendment state as you can get. We're just sure of putting 8 a case in the pre-cage that's funny uh the uh a case in the pre-case the um yeah when when we look at that now i think about uh financial privacy and things like that and labeling somebody um because oh this person bought a gun so now they're bad uh so that's prohibited for them to, what is prohibited in terms of what the banks can do in terms of somebody buying a firearm?

Because I know that Bank of America turned over a lot of, they did kind of geolocation of people that were there on January the 6th. And then they also had records of people who'd use their credit card to purchase firearms they turned all that stuff over to the to the fbi is there some prohibition of them reporting uh and tracking this stuff there's a prohibition of them tracking it right so they couldn't report it there's prohibition tennessee of them use a code that identifies that you bought a gun with we with. We don't want them knowing who you bought a gun. Of course, all that can do is make gun owners use cash, and I like cash.

I like to keep cash alive. We need to use some cash. Because one good sunspot needs 18 to go out, and you don't have any cash. You may get under it for a few days before you get it working again. It's always good to have a little cash laid back. That's right. And, of course uh you're talking about the international code that the credit card companies use that was something that came out of new york state and what you guys

did was you essentially nullified that here in tennessee okay good uh in terms of uh debanking because we've seen this happening now i just talked about earlier in Germany, the AFD political party. And again, I don't have much of an opinion one way or the other of the political party. But I think it is concerning to see that the German government is both debanking people who are a part of that. Actually, it's the political party's bank account where they were taking donations. They shut that down. We've seen that happen to Nigel Farage in the UK. We saw it happen to the Free Speech Union in the UK.

And then in addition, the few people that were allowed to own guns in Germany, if they are a member of that political party, they said that you can't own a gun. But getting back to the banking thing thing it's now become a thing for banks to ban people when i started the show i was about five months into it and paypal which is not a bank uh but paypal and venmo that's owned by paypal they just shut me down with that explanation you know just like youtube would and so is there anything at all in Tennessee or anything in the works that would stop debanking of people? Because that seems to be a rising line of attack against political enemies. We did.

We passed a bill. I remember it coming through Congress. I came off the top of my head to explain it, but we did address debanking of individuals in Tennessee. I think Senator Jack Johnson carried that bill. I talked to him this morning, but we didn't talk about that. But yeah, that debanking, I mean, without a reason. I mean, that's not America. You can't do that.

I mean, you've got to get a reason to debank them. Yeah. Of course. Well, they got a reason they don't like you they don't like your politics but uh you know the other thing is is that uh you know when you you might want to take a look at uh some of these um entities like paypal uh who are not technically banks uh but there might be something that would be there you know they they gave that a try in terms of free speech in Florida.

They said, well, you're not going to censor. I think they limited it to politicians, people who are running for office. You can't censor them as a social media company. The Supreme Court kind of punted on that. But so it's yet to be determined as to what's exactly going to happen with that. But I think it certainly is something that is worthwhile. I think it might be worthwhile to do that in terms of financial freedom as well, because that's going to really be that's that's going to be far more important than being kicked off of a social media thing. Although if you are in the if you are in media, if you are providing information, the both of them have the same effect.

I mean, they can either shut your bank account down or they can shut your audience down with their, their banning. And so both of these things are pretty important. I think. No, dealing in cash gives you a lot of financial freedom. Yes.

They can't track you. They can't shut down your credit card. You know, there's a lot of, a lot of freedom involved with having a little cash, but one thing that we were able to do, and Senator Sutherland again helped me on this,

we secured the grant from the governor for the Appalachian Electric that put fiber optics in every home in Jefferson County and Granger County that is on Appalachian Electric. The AEC Appalachian Electric Co-op. They have fiber optics to every hole. You don't even have to have a wi-fi. You just run it in,

plug it in your computer, hardwired and cut out on the EMFs. And in this day and age, fiber optics is just about as important as electricity. That's right. You can't hold it off, Daddy. And a lot of counties in this state that don't have them, a lot of states in America that does have it, but the fact that Jefferson and French County are about the AC, has fiber optics right to their premises,

that is a big, big deal, and I have to give Senator Sullivan part of the credit, but i have to take a little credit for that we made it happen yeah oh yeah that's very important um you know we also have a situation where the tennessee valley authority is very um hell-bent on getting renewables right wind and solar and as a part of that because these things don't work all the time they have to have a battery backup.

And they're talking about putting in these big battery energy storage sites. They call it BESS. And, you know, very concerning because, A, the cost, and B, the fire hazard. We've already had, it's not a theory. We see these things catching fire all the time. They've had a lot of rivian vehicles that have caught fire of course rivian at amazon charging stations amazon bought a lot of these electric delivery trucks and stuff from rivian and they've had a whole bunch of them catch fire as they were

charging and so that is a is a big issue these energy storage sites have caught fire in Australia where Musk put one of those in. Is there anything at all, any concerns about that at the state level? Anything that is happening in terms of renewables and the additional cost? Yeah. We realize that it's a fab bush by the left. One thing we did in Tennessee, we said, if you're going to put in windmills, you're going to have to put them on, to tie them down, dig the concrete up out of the ground,

restore it back the way it was, and dispose of these fiberglass blades properly, which there is no proper way to dispose of them. That's right. There is no proper way. So we basically stopped wind power in Tennessee by just making them put up enough money to just hold up. That's right. There is no other way. So we basically stopped wind power in Tennessee by just making them put up enough money to tie it down. In Canada, they just abandoned a lot of it.

You drive through the American West and it's sickening to see the windmills out through there. I call them bird blenders. They kill more ball. I've not heard them called a bird blender, but that's pretty good. That is basically what you called a bird blender, but that's pretty good. That is basically what they are, a bird blender.

And these solar panels, most of these solar panels will never make as much electricity as it took to build. And they could never do it without tax credits. So if the industry like wind power and solar, if they can't make it without tax credits, do we really need them? You know, we had electric cars. By 1920, there were several electric car makers. They had beautiful cars. Some of them run 100 miles on a charge. There's a reason why they didn't stay.

There's a reason why gasoline cars prevailed and the old Detroit electric car company went out of business. They were efficient cars, and if just want to drive them around town. But they just – and America's a great big place. You want to go somewhere, you don't want to wait 10 hours to get your battery charged. That's right. And it's dangerous. Even these e-bikes. I love an e-bike.

I rode that e-bike in Colorado on the Nicholson Trail, and I just loved it. If I needed a little help, I could turn it up, help me a little bit. But if you put it in your car or in your garage, that lithium battery is going to catch on fire, burn your house down. Yeah. You can't put it in your horse trailer because you'll have to set your trailer on fire. It's, I mean, it's scary. Yeah.

So it's really scary when you've got a large collection of these things to back up the grid. And so, you you know i like what what you guys did with the the windmill stuff because it is a big issue those composite blades don't have any way to be recycled and you wind up with these massive graveyards of them and i've seen them in europe as well people doing reports of these massive graveyards of the turbine blades so putting some restrictions on that and saying you're going to have to take care of the back end of this thing as well um and so i guess you know maybe something like that would be appropriate for the battery stuff well it it might be it might be it's um you know we we're right in the middle of the heart of t Valley Authority, but right now we are a net importer of electricity and not an exporter.

We should be an exporter. We should never shut down these coal-fired plants. We've got coal. We've got scrubbers on it. We spent a billion dollars on scrubbers that were cleaned. They shut them down and they're going to try to burn natural gas. We've got plenty of coal. You know,

I know you're not a big fan of Trump, but Trump did say that this country is run by really, really stupid people. That's right. Really, really stupid people. That's right. You've got to give him that.

Well, yeah, it takes one to know one sometimes i guess but uh yeah i'm trying to think what else we've done we passed into the public took over 12 years ago we we've abolished four major taxes. We have huge surpluses. We've got $2 billion in our rainy day fund. We've got $75 billion invested to take care of our retirees. We don't know a penny on our roads. Texas is over $20 billion on the roads. We don't know a penny.

Texas is full of toll roads. I hate a toll road. Now, the governor is trying to get some, he calls them choice lanes, but you've got to pay a toll to get on a choice lane. It's hard on poor people. It's on fire, and it ties our hands. Once you build a toll road beside our existing road, our hands are tied. We can't add another lane. We can't use buses on the curb. We can't put our high-speed rail.

We can't do anything that competes with this toll road. And they're always on the foreign companies, money from Spain, central Spain. And they shake us down for the rest of our lives. I mean, they'll skim money. They have a computer system that we can't understand. We'll never know for sure how many people went through there. And it's a license to steal from us it is and it absolutely is and you know in texas and

we've been gone now for two years i told the audience uh about a month or so ago we got yet another toll uh charge sent to us and uh and you know you have to get on the phone with these people and hang on there with them for a half hour to tell them, I want you to prove that this is me. Or you pay the toll or you let this thing accumulate till it gets up to a really large amount and then it can get to be a serious issue. But you're right. It's a foreign government. And you're right. It comes with all these restrictions. As a matter of fact, in Texas, what they would do is they would not they would add traffic lights along the feeder roads to add additional congestion to force people to get on the toll roads. Exactly.

It's a sinister plan. It's always made for somebody's, it's a sweetheart deal for somebody. Yeah, that's right. Well, what is the status of that right now? I know the governor was pushing that through. Did he get that approved, or is that still in play? Well, he's got it approved. I'm not sure we'll ever see any toll roads.

I'm hoping, you know, the governor's got two more years. I'm hoping the next governor's like me and doesn't like toll roads. You know, I think it's un-American. You know, in old Europe, by the time America was started in Europe, you had to pay a toll from one county to the next. And when America was created, it was the largest free trade zone in the world they'd ever seen. That's right.

And there's nothing about a free trade zone. Well, these toll roads, they're not easy. I mean, that's what the owners are told. I mean, you just have to pay it to go somewhere else. And they say, well, you don't have to use it. Well, if it's a pretty good road there, you got to use it. That's right. I've seen how this works in New York.

My wife is from New York, and we would go up there to visit family, and they just keep going up and up and up in price, and they get to be incredibly expensive. And so, yeah, I do hope that it doesn't happen. One of the things when I was looking at Tennessee in terms of moving here, one of only 14 states that didn't have toll roads so i hope it stays that way um let's talk a little bit about before we run out of time let's talk a little bit about uh a state bank and of course uh as you've talked about this in the past you said a lot of banks don't really understand

that a state bank like um they had in i think it's north dakota it's not a competition but an assistance to the banks and you had a brilliant relabeling for it you called it the tennessee reserve system because that really does explain to the bankers really more the function of it what is the status of that tell us a little bit about that well we're it's like a lot of things you it takes years to educate enough people and get enough people interested but I think our constitution pretty much says that we can't have a state bank but we're going to work around

and the only way I see it working if the state chartered banks would own would go together and buy stock and put a state central bank owned by the state charter banks and let this bank, high loan money,

can keep it, have a depository there for gold and silver if you want to put your gold and silver in the depository. Gold and silver is about the only thing that maintains your purchasing power through the year. We were real close this last year to getting a state depository.

I went to Texas and toured one in Texas, and they do a great job down there. Other states are looking at it. You know, you have a 1929. I was raised in the shadow of the Great Depression. I was born in the Depression. I mean, the war was just over. I considered war baby in the shadow of the Great Depression. I was born in the Depression. I mean, the war was just over. I considered a war baby in the beginning. Now they call it a baby boomer, but for years they called us war babies. And all the old timers talked about 1929 and how it destroyed everything.

And if we had a 1929 event right now, our money would be worthless. And the only people that would have any purchase in power would be the people that had a little silver and gold laid back somewhere. And you'd be surprised how many people out here in the country have some silver and gold. And there's three precious metals. You add lead to that. They do buy a addition. Silver, gold, and lead are the three precious metals. My friend the best in.

You know, a 1929 event, I mean, people don't realize what happened in 29. It was, my grandfather had three brothers. Two of them lost everything they had. Two of them didn't owe any money, and they made small fortunes during the Depression. Basically, I guess, it's another piece of defense. But what I'm saying is there's no guarantee we won't have another 1929 event. Yep. So having a small percentage of our state savings in silver and gold is a pretty good hedge. There's no downside.

You always sell it if you need it, and it's never gone to zero. Silver and gold have never been zero. Yes. you need it and it's never gone to zero so we're going to go with zero yes and so that's something you've been active in in terms of trying to get the state of tennessee to uh put some of its reserve funds and of course they have a uh a surplus uh thanks to the republican congress that's been there you guys have done a great job with that when you talk about the great depression we go back and we look at the history in north dakota they were able to weather that better than most of the states they were able to pay for example uh some state employees which other states were not

able to do they would give you an iou or something like that they were able to do it largely because they did have a state bank that was there so um you know it's not like um you know what we're trying to do is try to decentralize things isn't it isn't that the real purpose of of having these depositories and having a state bank is to try as a kind of a decentralized hedge against federal reserve mismanagement right that's accurate ellen brown and kevin alston fits two wonderfully smart ladies that talk about this and they say basically say the only way we can get out from one of the stranglehold of the Federal Reserve without a revolution or a great depression is for these banks to slowly

start giving their own little state banks that can be a deposit for the state, cash the checks. Like you say, they don't compete with the little banks. They support the little banks. North Dakota has more banks and credit unions per capita than any other state. And they've had a state bank since 19 and 19. Now then, if you try to start a state bank, federal nerves secretly put lobbyists

in here and they, you know, against it and they say, oh no, you're stupid to do that, blah, blah, blah. But you have to ignore them and have some leadership and keep moving forward. But I'd say Tennessee is a well-run state. We've been denied by some of our neighbors being heavily leased by our footage.

You know, AC, what can I know? But somehow or another, we've managed to take care of our money. Well, I see a lot of wisdom there and the experience that you've had and a lot of people there in Tennessee. And I do think it is a very well-run state. I've lived in several different ones and I really do like what I've seen here in Tennessee better than any other place.

And you're one of the key reasons that I think it's working there. Before we run out of time, we only got about two minutes left. Real quickly, anything happening with CBDC one way or the other? Central Bank Digital. there uh before we run out of time we only got about um two minutes left uh real quickly anything happening with uh cbdc one way or the other central bank digital well there's not as much talk as there was i have a feeling it's still pushed there's still a big push to go forward with it uh people caught on to it pretty quick different states and pushing back uh I think they realized that would be the ultimate.

If they push this central bank digital currency on us, we would basically be a digital slave. Yep, that's right. And they would control everything that we do. We couldn't buy ammunition. You could only buy, maybe you couldn't buy meat. They might decide that that's hard on the environment, climate change, and you can't buy meat. They might decide that that's hard on the environment, climate change, and you can't buy beef.

I mean, most people, and it took me a long time to realize that there is a globalist movement, a sinister bunch of dominant men that try to control the whole world. But they can't do it as long as America is free. And they fly in the ointment as the American South. They say the American South is the fly in the ointment is the American South. They say the American South is the flying ointment for the globalists. And of course, Tennessee is a crown jewel of the American South. That's right. And it is local.

You know, they're going to have that for the longest time. They said, well, think scheme globally, but you got to act locally. And so that's really where we cut the legs off of this thing that's where the rubber meets the road is at the state level that's why the state elections are so important and so i wanted to have senator nicely on because the elections are coming up here in tennessee but wherever you are the most important election is going to be the state and local elections and we all saw this in 2024. It's not a theory. It's for real.

And I've been hearing the Democrats, they understand what this is. Soros understands it. Musk understands it. These people have made a lot of money through operating with the government, so they understand how it works. Thank you so much, Senator Nicely.

Thank you for everything that you do, and good luck to you in this coming election. Thank you. I appreciate it, and I encourage everyone to get out and vote on August the 1st. Yes. Thank you very much. Senator Franklin.

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