The David Knight Show - Interview: The American Dream Has Been Systematically Destroyed

Episode Date: July 1, 2026

Gerald Celente and David Knight mark America's 250th anniversary with a damning inventory: median home prices at $434,000 — ten times what they cost 50 years ago — American pride at a 25-year record low, six companies now controlling 90% of the media after 50 did in the 1980s, and Larry Ellison buying CBS while a self-described "fanatical Zionist" is installed to run it. 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.

Thank you for joining us, Gerald. And, of course, Gerald Slinty, trendsjournal.com. And you can save 10% off a trends journal with a code night. Let's Gerald know that you got it through us as well. And so it's a win-win situation for everybody. You can save 10% off of it. And as Gerald always points out, that is a fraction of the price that you would pay for something like the New York Times. And it has real and relevant information in it that you won't find in those

papers as well. Thank you for joining us, Gerald. Got a great cover here for the 4th of July. Pull that cover up again, Lance, and show people that cover. As always, you've got a great cover. Talking about the Declaration of Independence, America at 250, where we have freedom of speech,

prohibited independent media, banned, and we need to reignite these brush fires of liberty, don't we? Yep. And again, we're doing it with the Trans Journal. Look at, look what's going on with CBS. with Ellison. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Hey, my daddy, my daddy's a billionaire. My billionaire got me there, right? I'm a little nobody, but look what I got. And to what purpose? Yeah. The Cartoon News Network. Yeah, that's right. And to what purpose, right?

They put in Barry Weiss to run these things and she says, well, I'm a, I forget the exact term she is, but something like I'm a fanatical Zionist. They've got a political agenda. And don't you dare say the G. own the media when they're bragging about owning the media. I mean, I'm looking at this stuff. I said to Karen, I said, it's just disgusting to set here and watch this stuff, you know, accumulating in slow motion.

You know, as we see all this power being consolidated into, you know, and all the media being consolidated into just one thing owned by a very wealthy family. That is pro-Zionist. Yep. Yeah. Again, one after another, Ellison, you know, I was a big fan of Netanyahu, the old man. And again, back, you go back to the 1980s, 50 companies controlled 90% of the media in America.

Now, six. Yeah. Yeah, it's a consolidation of power, whether you're talking about banks or whether you're talking about media or they're talking about movie studios. And they can affect people's thoughts and news organizations. and especially when you look at politics, everything is about consolidation. And that was the antithesis of everything the founders wanted to do. They understood that was the greatest threat because it created the greatest evil.

The nature of man is to want more and more power and to abuse it when they get it. And that's what we're seeing right now. Trump has focused on consolidating power into the executive office. and he has swept aside to all obstacles for the media to be consolidated and to one or two companies. That's really what we're going to wind up with, is it? Here's the guy that made it happen. Yep, yep.

That's a T-shirt I did back when he ran for office. A little nobody, a little jerk off over there in Arkansas who wasn't worth a penny, but I became governor. And now I'm worth $130 million. so shut the hell up. This is a slime ball that gave us the 1996 Federal Communications Act

that deregulated the media. That's right. And also he cleared the way he cleared the way for consolidation in the banking industry as well. You know, when you get consolidation, banking, and media, what's going to happen

with that as well? You know, let me ask you this, Gerald, because we just had a Supreme Court decision that came out about campaign financing is going to make it easier for them to have no limits in terms of the amount of money that they can get. What do you think about this? I mean, I said, I've changed my mind on it when it first came out. I worked with a guy who had been one of the plaintiffs and Citizens United.

And he was making the statement that, hey, we had a, it was a grassroots organization that we had here. And we were trying to run ads to get our point across or fighting the renewable energy mandates, which I disagreed with. And so I agreed with this position on the issues, and I looked at it and thought, well, you know, as long as we have full disclosure, I guess that's okay. And yet we can see what happens. Even if you tell people, these guys are being paid off by big pharma or by Israel or they're being paid off by big pesticide. I guess we call them big pests. But, you know, they're taking money from all these special interest groups out there. And they are using that to give them monopolies and to take away our liberty and to pump poison into our food.

and our drugs and that type of thing. So it's just not working out. It is a, I think all the money in politics is just a metric of the corruption that is there. So what do we do about this? It's not Citizens United. It's corporations United. Yeah, that's right.

It's a bunch of crap. You got no money you can't run. You know, but then again, there's the other side of it. And again, in Trent forecasting, it's not what you like, what you want, what you wish, it's what is. and you just saw what happened in the primaries in New York City. Little nobody's knocked out the guy that was in office.

How many terms? Five terms or something? The guy that Levi Strauss boy that got knocked out. And now what happened? Another one in Colorado, one after another, they're calling themselves social democracy. Democrats with Democratic Socialists. Yeah.

And the young people have no future. They're broke and busted. Yeah. Again, only the facts. This is in your Trends Journal. And by the way, when you subscribe to the Trends Journal, it's the grand total of $2.50 a week. American Pride falls to 25-year record low.

All right? Yeah. another article here let me find it about how many young people are moving back home with their family because with their parents because they can't afford rent it's one article after another here a record 25.2 million young American adults about 33% under 35 have returned to the family nest as the cost of living has become prohibitive. Hey, but the billionaires got richer,

so shut the hell up, all right? And look how rich the billionaires before you were talking about the COVID war brought to us by Trump. Yeah. Who locked down the country on March 13th, Black Friday,

2020. That's right. State of emergency. That's right. The helm prices since then have gone up 54% percent. Automobiles, about 40 percent.

The young people are broke and busted. I'm telling you, this social democratic party movement, it's, again, it's not what you like, what you want, what you wish,

it's what is. I agree. Because the people are going, here, these are a couple of your articles in this week's Trends Journal regarding this.

Democrats see, in party become more apparent after New York primaries. Democratic socialism is the future. Mondani's pick sweep congressional primaries in New York. You're ready for this? Israel played central theme in Democratic primaries in New York and support for Tel Aviv proved to be damaging. Yeah.

The people came out. They supported the candidate. that were anti-genocide. This is New York City, the biggest Jewish population in the world outside of the city, outside of Israel. Yeah, that's right.

And, you know, Gerald, I played when Mom Danny won, there was an Israeli station that was going around doing reports and talking to New York City Jews. And they said, yeah, I voted for Mom Danny. And they said, how could you do that? I said, well, because I'm opposed to this war. And, you know, I mean,

they're not buying into. it, even if there, if many of the Jews in New York City see what's happening and they, um, they think it's horrific. And, uh, so that, that's a big part of it. A lot of this, as you're pointing out, is, um, the declining, uh, economy here. And the Democrats are jumping in with a demagoguery and saying, they're going to fix it. They're going to level the playing field. They're going, you know, and so the part of the problem is that the institutional institutions have, have not have basically kept away

what the real treatment for all this is. We really need to go back to fundamental principles that this country was founded on rather they will push them towards socialism and mandated wealth redistribution. And that's only going to make things worse. It's going to throw us into the fire.

Like I said, it's not about what you want, what you like, or what is. I'm just saying the why. Oh, yeah, that's right. That's right. And going back to it, it's not capitalism anymore. It's fashion. That's right.

It's the merger of state and corporate powers. That's the definition given to us by Mussolini. That's right. And the corruption is just amazing. When you go back to Bill Clinton, all the deregulations, you're talking about a little Jimmy Kahn, a little peanut farmer with probably a pair of balls of size of peanut, a little arrogant slime ball that people looked up to,

oh, that gave us to Mujahideen? Oh, yeah. Oh, Brazinski? Oh, his daughter's on MSNBFUCK? Yeah, oh, yeah, that one? Yeah. Mujahideen, we got to stop them Russians from taking over, stopping the Taliban from taking over Afghanistan. Mm-hmm. That's Jimmy Carter, that Jimmy Carter, who deregulated the airline industry, and now four companies control the whole place. Mm-hmm. The Jimmy Carter, who pushed for interstate banking. Back then, there was only intrastate banking, Bank of California.

was only in California. Bank of America was only in California. They weren't all over America. There were local banks everywhere. Little Bill Clinton is the guy that made it happen officially. The big zone everything. We got to bring back the Robinson Patman

Act, the Sherman Antitrust Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act, the Glass-Steagle Act. All of them have been deregulated. The big zone everything. That's right. That's right. Yeah, they can set up these PACs, these political action committees and things like that, and they don't have any limits as to what they can give to people. And we see this being used by APAC as well as many

corporations that are out there. And really what we're seeing is massive corruption. There was an article, Gerald from the New York Post, just came out, I think it was yesterday, calling Trump out for his Biden-esque corruption. And they said, you look at what is happening with the Trump boys and it is exactly the same thing that happened with Hunter Biden. You know, they're getting mining deals and, of course, it's the Trump crime family and the Lutnik crime family. And it's, oh, we don't run it anymore. Our sons run it. And the same thing that, you know, they were doing with the same scam they're running with Hunter Biden. And yet, it works exactly the same way. And there was a scathing editorial from the New York Post, which is usually a cheerleader for Trump

and for the Republican Party calling this out. But how do we get that? We get it because of the money going into politics and the way that they have cleared that. Yeah. And so these people pay them off and buy them. And so we have the situation where we have what was PJR. Work used to, he wrote a book called Parliament of Hors.

And that's exactly what we've got there. You know, you can't buy love and you can't buy integrity, but you can buy a prostitute. And that's what we got in Washington. We got 500 plus of them there in Washington, I think. Yeah, Trump's net worth nearly tripled in his second term, reaching $6.5 billion. Yeah. And his financial disclosure just came out as well.

Yeah, $1.4 billion in crypto ventures. Mm-hmm. And again, it's Lutnik, Wittkov, jerk off, Trump crap kids, one after another. That's right. It's a crime syndicate in front of everybody's eyes. but it's always been going on. And again, here, in your Trends Journal, number of ultra-wealthy individuals

jumped by 14.4% in 2025. Ready? Richest in the U.S. see unprecedented wealth. Another article, while the people of slave land are you get poorer. This is serious, and I'm telling you why these elections are going the way they are.

And again, not what you want, what they're saying. They're awful of crap. But what I'm saying is this country's going down. I was just, by the way, to come on at 6 p.m. tonight with Judge Napolitano. And he was talking about Douglas McGregor, former colonel, sending him a text about how many bases. I think it's like 760 bases in 80 countries that the United States has overseas. And they just showed... Look at the money with fighting with wars.

Our country's going to crap. Yeah, that's right. And you know, there was an expose from the Wall Street Journal. I don't know if you saw it. They got satellite pictures, finally, because Hegseth went to every kind of extreme measure he could think of to try to keep all this quiet what was happening in the military bases there in the Middle East.

They denied it. They kept the pictures secret, but now the information is out. And, of course, McGregor had been talking about this, from the very beginning, and so it's got ridder. Both of them were telling the truth. Trump and Hegeseth were lying through their teeth the entire time of what was happening. And what they've done is they basically made these military bases

a relic of a former military age. And they're saying, we're not sure we're even going to rebuild this big base in Bahrain, which was a major base for the Navy there, because it is so vulnerable. And this is something that, when you look at what is happening in the military, does he keep pouring more and more money

into these weapons of the past. It really truly is amazing. This whole Defense Department, Pentagon has become a gigantic Maginot line, I think. Again, like you're putting, this is one of my books, Trench 2000. They had me as a keynote speaker

at Virginia Military Institute in 2000. And you know what I was talking about? New Millennium Warfare. Yeah. I saw all these tanks, these planes, these ships. I said, they're going to be obsolete in the new millennium. And you're seeing it now. We know such as drones back then, 26 years ago.

That's right. Cybersecure. Nothing like this. It's a whole different world. And America's not leading it. Going back to the, you're saying how Trump keeps lying, hey, we wiped them out. We got more missiles left.

We destroyed her. Oh, how about head shit? How about head shit? When he comes out with, hey, hey, they're toast. They're toast. That was three days after the war started. Yeah, I know.

You ready for this? In your Trends Journal, again, for the grand total of $2.50 when you put your thing there for them to hit, 92% of Israelis. believe Iran won the war. Yeah. Well, what's the matter of those other 8%? 92%

8% are clueless. Look at the lies that they're selling us in this country. Hey, Iran's going to make a deal with us because we're wiping them out. They're going to do what we tell them to do. You're all right, all right. And of course, that is very different

than what the mainstream media is telling people. It's very different than what the market is telling people, again. So this is one way, that kind of information. If you got a clear head about this, you understand what is really happening in spite of the marketplace reacting to the lies of Trump and Hogs Breath, as some people who call him,

I just call him War Pete. I see as a Secretary of War Pete, blah, blah, blah, and it's like, I'll just take those two center words there, War Pete, because that's all he is about. And that's all he keeps repeating is war. But if you understand, if you see what the truth is, you know, what Gerald is talking about, then you understand that we're living in a Potemkin marketplace.

When you look at the stock market, it's just this fantasy village that they have created up there, isn't it, Gerald? Yep. And again, what I'm reading to you, what I'm telling the people right now, they're not getting anywhere else. Nobody's saying this stuff.

We put out all the information. Here, you're talking about the equity markets, right? Mm-hmm. We go on to say how Trump keeps doing what he can. Here, well, the guests on the street, is that the, we call here, the street, there's another issue. The reserve will raise interest rates. We maintain our trend forecast that Donald Trump will play his quote,

out of the deal game. So that's what he keeps doing. And again, you're going back to what they're doing with the, with Iran. And once again, here, much of what happens in the geopolitical and economic future will depend on when and if the Iran war ends. Should it end, it would be positive for the global economy and lift the social and economic spirit of Americans.

Again, which the Gallup poll notes is in the dumps. We put the article there. But as we have detailed since the Iran war began, what the presidential reality show champion, Donald Art of the Deal Trump says, what it really means, where it goes and how it goes are schemes. as he keeps doing all he can to pump up the equity markets and bring down oil prices. Again, by the facts, we noted that Trump said there was a ceasefire deal with Iran nearly 40 times,

promised to bomb them into the Stone Age if they did not agree to what he wants, declared total victory, said the U.S. has wiped out their missile systems, destroyed their military and a begging for a deal, all of which is not BS, it's Trump BS. Okay, we go on to say, and as we detail, when Trump promises to escalate the war, he does so on the weekends. And then before the equity markets open,

it's happy days with Irani here again. So up go the equity markets, down gold, gold prices. Indeed, last Friday, Right after the equity markets closed, the U.S. launched attacks against Iran in response to Iran's attacking an oil tanker in the strait of her moves. Thus, despite Iran and the U.S. trading strikes over the weekend, yesterday, meaning Monday, Trump posted on his truth social, which we call lie social, that Iran wanted to hold negotiations in Qatar on Tuesday, quote, Iran has requested, a meeting, it will take place tomorrow in Doha, President Donald J. Trump, end quote. After Trump posted it, Iran officially denied it, and we go on. Yeah, exactly.

And we talked about this when you were here two weeks ago. We said, you know, you said this is not going to hold that Trump's controllers and donors don't want this to happen. And he was being eviscerated in the Israeli press. And so what happened was Israel kept attacking Lebanon and Trump starts verbally attacking Iran, then physically attacking Iran. He's going to do everything he can't. He's going to try to goad them into doing something aggressive. And if he can't do that, he'll do the aggression.

But he's going to make sure this war keeps going. But as you point out, it's a weekend war. And then he comes back and brings it in and says to the marketplace. So it's all great, you know, so he can pump the market up. I think what you said in terms of instead of it, being BS, it's T.S. Yeah. Because that ought to be the,

there ought to be two different levels of BSing people. You have normal BS and then you have T.S, which is BS on steroids, I guess. Oh, that's one of the covers of the Transjournal magazine. It's no BS anymore. It's not. Every day comes out and says a lie. Yeah, that's right.

Every day. No, actually, more than one. Oh, yeah, more than one. Excuse me. Don't insult him, yeah. He's worked really hard to be able to do this. He's had a lot of training in the professional wrestling business, and he knows exactly how that works.

And he's going to be the hero to these other people's healed. Yeah, that's right. Again, we took out the trademark. We owned the trademark, Presidential Reality Show. We took that out when he ran in 2016. Yeah. Go on to say, um,

Israel will continue to, renege on the ceasefire agreement with Lebanon and will not withdraw from Lebanon. Thus, there will be no peace deal with Iran and the war will continue. But Trump will do all he can to pretend that peace is at hand in the run-up to the midterm elections. I agree. And you know, when we look at this, again, the Supreme Court decisions that came out, Trump only cared about the vote-by-mail stuff. Yeah, we got to stop this thing. And the Supreme Court got this wrong and so forth. And yet he was the one who created vote by mail with his lockdown. That's right. And then when COVID. Yeah, yeah. So you got a Trump problem and a Trump

solution, which is let's give me complete control over elections. So we're going to have voter roles taken up into the federal government level instead of at the state level. We're going to print all the ballots and all the rest of this. That's why when I was at InfoWars and Steve Pachanek came out with saying, oh yeah, the Trump people, they printed all these blockchain watermark ballots and they're monitoring them with quantum computers. It was all a lie. And, of course, the most simple aspect of it was, the federal government doesn't create the ballots.

That's always been done at the state level. Everything Trump was doing, though, that the Supreme Court shut him down on with this election stuff was about him trying to federalize the controls of the election. And that's a very bad idea. I mean, should have the ability, states should have the ability to require ID. And yet, you had, the federal government was telling a lot of, Southern states, they couldn't do that, that it was racist. And so the federal government usually is the one creating these problems.

And if you get the federal government as regulations out of the way, you can fix these type of things. But, you know, as you pointed out before, people are feeling the consequences of these bad economic policies. And their response is going to be to turn to socialism. And, of course, everybody feels the economic aspects of this. I think it's kind of like what's happening with the data centers, Gerald. Everybody fuels the economic consequences of this. It's going to raise the prices of electricity and it's going to create problems with water and all the rest of stuff. They're focusing on those issues, but they're not seeing the underlying issue, which I think is really about the surveillance.

I've been trying to get myself to use the term always surveillance centers rather than data centers because that's really where the real issue is. But it's hard to get people interested in things like liberty and peace. You can't get them interested in money. and if they're interested in money, you can start to shoe them over to a socialist program, and of course, universal basic income is the ultimate socialist program that's being pushed by the technocrats. But I don't know, what do you think we,

where do you go from this point? I mean, is this the end of the American Republic at this point? Well, you know, you're talking about what the people know and don't know. And I, you know, it's great what we're talking about, but there are much more important things that we haven't discussed because these are the headlines. Taylor Swift wedding is fashion Super Bowl. Our clothes will influence the industry.

Yeah. The price tag behind Taylor Swift's rumored wedding bash at Madison Square Garden. All right? These are the headlines. Yeah, if I want to talk about Madison Square Gardens, I talk about their surveillance system, their biometric surveillance system that they use on everybody that goes in there. I guess if you go to her wedding, you're going to get your, you know, biometric database scanned and all that stuff.

This is a headline story in Reuters. This is before we went on the air. You ready? The romance between Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey played out in public but the pop icon and the NFL star. Pop icon and NFL star.

What the hell do I care about this crap? Why don't you go shove it? Oh, shut up, Salenti. How about the World Cup? Oh, hey, the Knicks one. The Knicks one. All right, that's the mentality of the people. That's right.

So don't subscribe to the Trends Journal. Pay to go to Reuters. Get the New York Times a toilet paper record. Oh, now the New York Times is bringing a guy in from the Atlantic, a pro-Zionist. That was reported in the Times of Israel. Yeah. Yeah, they keep you occupied with all these circuses that you're talking about. And then when it gets bad enough and there's no bread, why they do, they turn to,

Marxism or they turn to some dictator-s savior they think is going to save them from everything. We take a hard authoritarian turn. That's what they want. Yeah. You ready? When I tell you, it's total bullshit that you're crap that you're getting from them. Here, the couple has made no public statements about their plans, and Reuters has not been able to confirm the timing or location of the wedding, which is expected as soon as Reuters,

Runners. What are you? Draw that hell up. Yeah. That is how this country has turned to crap. Yeah. Right in front of you all the hell do I can. Oh, Taylor Swift.

Hey, I told you I'd put on a concert with Ella Fitzgerald. Yeah. When I used to work for a trade association, took over the Atlantic Convention Center after our trade show. So it was live. It was live, it wasn't Memorex, right? Yeah, and Ellis said to my former wife, you look like my goddaughter Carmen, who lives in Harlem. Oh, I took over the Superdum, did one with Dionne Warwick,

and you're telling me about Taylor Swift? What are you kidding me or what? This is the joke that this country is devolved into. Look at the way the people look. How many tattoos you got on you? Again, the Ringling Brothers in Baltimore and Bailey Circus went out of business because you, You don't have to step right up, step right up, see the fat man, see the tattooed ladies, see

the lady with the beard. You could see him out in the street for free. You're making me think of a New Year's Eve gig that I played with the band. We actually did the retirement home for Ringling Brothers. And they had all the retired circus freaks there at the New Year's Eve. That's one of the strangest things I was ever in New Year's Eve. It's out of the street. Now, I'm heartbroken.

That's right. I'm heartbroken to see how you're normal. city, you know, that looks like that New Year's Eve gig. Yeah. I'm heartbroken. Yeah. To see what's happened to this country. And this is the end of it. Then again, we've become the country that, you know, the, again, I did this interview today with Judge Napolitano, and he counted the number of times that the United Kingdom, how many countries they attacked, how many countries France attacked, the United States, one after another.

and it's been going on forever. And again, I read you the article about how the billionaires get richer and everybody, not a penny for peace. And you know, I launched Occupy Peace, had you up here as a speaker. And I'm not going to do it anymore. I'm finished.

It costs me out of my pocket, you know, paying people and the security and the sound system, about 20 to 30,000 bucks. No coverage at all. hardly any support. Been doing it for over a decade.

Last one I had last September, about 150 people showed up. Really? Really? And it was an old age home. Yeah. I'm not doing it anymore. The billionaires don't give a penny for peace.

People aren't giving money for peace. Hey, Taylor Swift, why are you shut the hell up, right? Yeah. And you elect me, I'm to stop that Ukraine war in 24 hours, all right? And you elect me, I'm not going to start a lot. I'm going to stop a war. Give me your money. Give me your money.

Yeah, it's amazing when you look at what is happening in Lebanon, even as reports are coming out, what happened in Gaza over the last couple of years? And it's just disgusting to watch this. And, you know, the massive number of bombs that they're dropping on civilian population is just horrific. And we're paying for it. Yeah.

It's our money. You had that little vance clown. A little, oh, I changed my name. How many times? Now I'm F-U-C-K-jerk fans. How many times did he change his name? Coming out, bragging that the weapons and military equipment has come from the American taxpayers to Israel.

They should be proud of that. Yeah, get to work, everybody. Get to work. I'm stealing your money so we could slaughter more innocent people in Gaza, steal more land in the West Bank and bomb the hell out of Lebanon. So get to work. I want your money. I'm slime ball Bill Clinton.

I'm little Georgie Bush. Oh, no, no. I'm the Nobel Peace of Crap Prize winner, Barack Obama. Quoted in the book, I'm really good at killing people. Yeah. One after another. Well, discuss me. You're talking about how you're not going to do the Occupy Peace anymore.

I'm looking at, I'm not giving up on Christ, but I'm giving up on organized, Christianity when I look at people like Huckabee and Hegseth and how they have hijacked that. And it's just disgusting to see what they're saying and what they're doing. And it's not just limited to what's happening in the Middle East with Israel. When you look at what Hegseth did down in Venezuela is a prelude to that, and they're still doing it. You know, attacking ships, they see a boat out there.

They think it looks suspicious. They just kill everybody on board. And if they don't all die in the first thing, they circle back around. execute them in the water. It's like, wow. You know, we allow people like this to have the levers of power. They're going to use that against us as well. Yeah, using it against us. Yes. Yeah, I know. Again, it goes back to why you're seeing these social Democrats win because the people are broken, busted, they have absolutely no future. Again, we've discussed us a thousand times. When we were young guys, there were hardware stores. No, there was no love.

There were no home depots. They were locally owned. There were stationary stores. There were no staples. There were none of this other crap. There were clothing stores, shoes stores, drug stores. No CVSs. There were fish stores, all chains.

People have no future. That's right. Again, Michael, Jimmy and Ann, may all rest in peace. I had a fish store in Rico Park, in Queens. My uncle Frankie and Aunt Ann had one in Jackson Heights in Queens.

My uncle Mario and Aunt Rose had one in Flushing in Queens. My uncle Dominic and Aunt Grace had a fish store in the Bronx. My uncle Al had a butcher shop in the Bronx. All middle class, nice little houses. That was America. Yeah, that's right.

Yeah, somebody, I think it was it Napoleon that derided the UK as a nation of shopkeepers? And yet that was really their strength. the fact that you had a middle class, right? Yeah. And Napoleon and his socialist, they didn't like that idea. They didn't like the middle class. And that's what we have right now.

And what you're talking about, the consolidation that's happening with the banks, what's happening with the media, you know, the news as well as entertainment. We're going to wind up just like we got Home Depot or we have Lowe's. You have Staples or you've got office, max, or whatever. So you're going to wind up with, two, you know, whether you're talking about news or with entertainment, you're going to wind up with two entities that are going to be so big that they shut everybody else out. And part of that is the censorship that they invoke. They are setting up all the levers of power to be able to

hide and to censor and to de-platform and to remove you out of the entire financial system through digital currency, through digital ID. And we've got the Republicans who are really to leading the charge in this. Donald Trump and Marsha Blackburn who's likely going to be the next governor here in Tennessee, she is carrying the water for him when they're pushing for all this permission society, the digital currency as well as the digital ID. So how about what's going on in the UK with the cops looking at the they take with the photos of picture

people saying that this person's a thief, this one's a crook, this one's that, arresting people by the AI with the taking shots of their faces. It's just the beginning. I have an article about a woman who she woke up. She has one of these flock cameras in her front yard. Of course, it's in this little strip, I guess it's

between the sidewalk and the road. They say that belongs to the city. But she wakes up one day and there's this flock camera there. She calls the cops to come out and look at it and they go, well, I don't know, you're not on the list. It wasn't supposed to be one here, but it's there. So it's going to stay. The same situation happened in New York

with a 5G thing. that was a couple of years ago. I talked about that story. A woman, one day they come in and they put one of these 5G antennas right up against the window of her child's room. She said, I don't want that thing there. That's dangerous. And so it's got a sticker on it, by the way, talking about the radiation levels and things

like that. She called the police and they called the people who put it up there. They came out, and rather than take the antenna down, they took off the water. warning label. That's far for the course, isn't it? It's heartbreaking. Yeah. And again, we are on the verge of an economic collapse, the like of which we've never

seen. The equity markets are totally rigged, the big zone at all, again, Black Rock, Vanguard, State Street, Google it up. They own the value of 88% of the value of the S&P 500. 1% owned 54% of the stock markets. 1%. And then when you put the 10% in 93%. There's an article out by this,

they have what the real debt is for the United States. And when you put unfunded Medicare promises, unfunded Social Security promises, publicly held debt, pension and retire health care liabilities, and other liabilities. You ready? $176 trillion debt low. Oh.

Can't even imagine that. Yeah. Can't even imagine that. So death of the dollar is going to be coming. And the world has had enough of the United States, geopolitical and economic hegemony. again, I showed you the data about how much of the world

doesn't look up to America anymore. The bricks are going to go, China is going to, they're all going to do whatever they can not to deal with the dollar anymore. And they're destroying our nation. When Trump lied again, go back to February 2025, hey, I'm going to cut the defense budget

by half a trillion dollars, right? Hey, this year of February, I'm going to add another half a trillion dollars, are right? Yeah, I know. Yeah, they hit a record of a trillion. trillion dollars and immediately turn around and say, yeah, we need to increase that by 50%. And, of course, they're still incinerating our money in terms of bombs that they're putting out there.

But you go back to that debt that you were talking about, $160, $170 trillion who's counting anymore, right? At the very beginning of the Trump administration, you had Lutnik and Bergam and Bessent, of course, Treasury, Secretary, Commerce Secretary, and the Interior Secretary. And they were talking over and over again about how, oh, yeah, it's not a problem. We've got all this wealth that's tied up in public lands and things like that as well as other things. I think that's the big taking that they're going to be doing. They're going to basically auction everything off. They're setting up all the derivatives.

They're setting up all of the tokenization of what is happening with these assets. And I think that's really where they're going. What do you think about that, Gerald? No, you may be right. And they're going to come out with a digital currency. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, we're doing away with a dirty dollar.

Now we got a digital trash. Mm-hmm. And it's worth a lot more than a dollar, so we just eliminated our debt level. They'll make up some crap. Yeah, yeah. Like a trillion dollar coin, you know? Yeah.

I thought there would be the crash in 2012. I was 100% wrong. Mm-hmm. They didn't teach me about a thing called quantitative easing in economics 101 or graduate school. They made up the crap. Yeah. And, you know, that is that,

escalating again right now in the last year, and very few people are talking about that. I've only seen that report in a few places. Everybody looks at the interest rates, and that is the big visible thing that is out there, and everybody's always talking about that. But they're not talking about the fact that the current administration is rapidly increasing the money supply again. And so they can do that under cover and still have the same effect, if not a greater effect, because, you know, when they raise the interest rates, the home prices and home mortgages,

when they lower them, for example, they actually go up because they're looking at that saying, well, that's going to be inflationary. So if we're going to do a long-term loan, we're going to have to have higher interest rate in order to break even on that. So a lot of times when they would lower the interest rates and have a counter effect, they would be there. But this quantitative easing, that was really one of the key things that was going on, you and I talked about back in 2019 with the repo market and all the rest of the stuff. That is back and roaring big time.

And they seem to always do that as a preparation for the next economic trick they're going to do before they do a lockdown or something like that, don't they? Yep. Yeah. This is going bad. America Pride falls 25-year low. Again, one after another, the people can't afford their homes. The young people are moving in with their parents.

Again, we're going through a whole different period here, and it's going to be terrible. It's going to be worse than it is and just keep getting worried. because there's no peace on earth, and we just have a crime syndicate that people call a government. I agree, yeah. You know, it's kind of interesting, too, with the Congress has put together

what they called an affordability act, and it doesn't really make housing more affordable. It's basically doing things like raising the FHA maximum loan amount, which doesn't make them more affordable any more than Trump's ridiculous idea, oh, hey, let's change it from a 30-year mortgage to a 50-year mortgage. That doesn't make a house more affordable.

That's just a side of hand. But he doesn't even care about that. Trump doesn't even care to pretend anymore that he's about Americans' financial interest. Instead, he said, no, no, no, we've got to do something about this voting stuff. All he cares about is politics and war. And if it's not about that. He cares about how much money him and his family could make. That's right.

That's right. Yep. And, yeah, and so that. Yeah, you ready? Yeah. The median sale price for single-family home in the U.S. is approximately, you ready? $434,000. Compare that to 1975 when the average price was under $40,000.

Yeah. And I remember before- According to the Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Study, existing home prices have risen 54% since 2020 and are about five times the median income level, well above the ratio of three times that used to prevail. Wow. You know, I remember when my older sister got married in 1969

and they bought a house and Gerald, it was $25,000. And I thought, wow, that's a lot of money. I couldn't even imagine that. And that was about what the median price of a home was at that point in time. And then you're talking about by 1975 after we had the shock the OPEC embargo and first round of inflation that kicked through us in the 70s, it had jumped at that point from 25 to 40. Now look at where we are.

435,000, I mean, you know, we are 10 times what a house cost about 50 years ago. Yeah. So again, going back to this Gen Z revolution is one of our top trends that we came out in this year, in January. And the Gen Z revolution is going on around the world. world. In India, the Cockroach Party, you know about that, right? Yeah. Oh, yeah. And

in Kenya, they just locked down. They wouldn't let the young kids go out and protest. It's in your Transjournal. About Gen Z. Nepal over through the government, Bulgaria, Tanzania. Young people are taking to the streets. And again, I bought 1984, we moved

to Reinbeck. I was working in Chicago. We moved back. You ready? Reinebeck. Ryan Beck now, they used to call it the Hamptons of the North. now. A house on eight and a half acres, how to redo the whole house, across the street, 10 acres, up the street, 16 acres. You ready? $28,000. $28,000. This is Rhinebeck. This is where, this is where Hitler and Clinton's daughter got married. Yeah. Wow. That's, that's Rinebeck. I'm telling you how they have destroyed this country. Yeah.

One political party after another. It's a unified crime syndicate. They're not politicians. And when you see this in-your-face attack on all the basic liberties that we've had, whether it's free speech especially or the rule of law in all these different places, we see all the governments are increasingly getting authoritarian because they know that there's not anything that people are going to be able to do about it once they get their surveillance centers in.

These people are already, we're seeing this massive rise in tyranny. Because they're already feeling the power. They're right on the cusp of seizing that. That's what we've got to focus on, these surveillance centers. Because that is going to be the way they're going to lock everybody down, as you're pointing out with the other things. Thank you so much for joining us, Gerald Selentie. Again, TransJournal, use the code Knight to save 10% off of excellent Trends Journal.

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