The David Knight Show - INTERVIEW: The Next 2 Months Post Election

Episode Date: November 8, 2022

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Main market excluding specials and place bets. Terms apply. Bet responsibly. 18plusgamblingcare.ie Joining us now is Eric Peters, epautos.com. Eric has always been on point when it comes to liberty and mobility, and those two things are inextricably linked together. Thank you for joining us, Eric. Oh, thanks for having me, David.

I guess we're all waiting with bated breath to see whether the threat to our democracy is real. Exactly. Yeah, they're going to go thermonuclear. They've already warned us that there's not going to be any results for many days. And I said earlier in the program, I said, isn't it strange that with all of these computerized systems and everything, they now have messed up the election so much that we can't get results for many, many days, even though we used to be able to do that same day. When we hand counted the ballots and had a few voting machines that were mechanical, wasn't any problem. Now we got the mail out election that trump put in place and that has really messed things up but i think that's locked in i think it's another one of these things like

the executive order about a state of emergency for covet they're never going to take it off i don't think they're ever going to fix this uh mail thing and and both sides will just use it yeah these precedents once they're set are incredibly difficult to roll back. That's been a problem in our politics for many generations. You can see it embodied in things like repeal and replace Obamacare, as opposed to just get rid of the thing. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I said it was an interesting thing that I came across, and it went back to the early 1800s,

and it was a quote by somebody criticizing conservatives. And they said, for conservatives, policies are not determined by truth, they're determined by time. If something is left in place long enough, then it becomes true, and they grab a hold of it, even though it was completely false to start with. Well, there's a kind of a babbitry involved. It's sort of a low-rent utilitarianism in that they conservatives typically not all of them but many of them will not refer to a principle and use that as the foundation for whatever the

particular thing happens to be so they just will say things like well this works better than our opponent's plan as opposed to you know that plan that they're talking about is wrong and here's why and we shouldn't do this at all. I agree. Well, you know, you've got an article, If the Left Wins. How do you see this happening? You know, what is, there's a lot of very, very key issues that there's not a dime's worth of difference between the Republicans and the Democrats, but there are some issues.

What do you see as the determining factor, if the left wins versus the right? Well, it'll be an affirmation of everything that's gone on for the past three years. You know, whether it's legitimate or not, they're going to claim it is. And then what they'll do afterward is frame anybody who questions it, which they've already done, as a threat to our democracy. I read something a couple of days ago about proposals that are being put out. You know, you probably follow these things as closely as I do to take it up a notch with regard to what the left calls misinformation and to criminalize it. So instead of simply canceling you from Twitter or deplatforming you, they'll pursue you criminally if you question them in any way, shape, or form.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's rolling out in various places around the world. You've got their deputized agents. We need to start talking about not just the deep state of the permanently entrenched bureaucrats, but we need to talk about the deputized state, all these corporations who act at the behest of the government, and they're not even trying to hide it anymore. I mean, they're writing letters, they're talking to them at open hearings and all the rest of the stuff about what they want them to do, and they want them to do what they are prohibited from doing themselves, but it's still wrong for the corporations to do it at their behest.

And so we're really going to point that out, I think. Yeah, and not only is it very overt, but it's very vague. You know, they will say that you have violated community guidelines or, again, you're spreading misinformation. Nothing specific. community guidelines or again you're spreading misinformation nothing specific you know nothing that says well you told a lie or an untruth about X just misinformation and that's it and at that point they like for example in the case of PayPal will simply seize your money yeah I mean that was a shot across the ballot I think a lot of people have awakened to what these people have in mind for us, and that's a good thing.

But at the same time, it's a really scary thing. Well, and I think what is interesting is that after it was a shot across the bow, and when they did it to the Daily Skeptic and the Free Speech Union and the guy who runs both of those things, all three at the same time. He got a lot of attention from UK politicians and from the UK mainstream media. They didn't like that. And PayPal retrenched and said, oh, that was a mistake. We didn't mean to put that out. And of course, that was a ridiculous thing for, nobody believed that at all. And then after everything went quiet for a couple of days, they reintroduced it, Eric. They put it back in, just so we know that these people are never going to give up. They're going to keep coming back and coming back and coming back, aren't they?

Yeah, even more virulently at the end of the day. And, gosh, you know, there's so many facets to this. If, let's say, the red tsunami happens, I don't think it's beyond improbable that they will then declare that there's an insurrection going on and a threat to our democracy. And God knows only what they're going to do on the basis of that. And even more alarming, keep in mind that even if the red tsunami happens, these people are still going to wield the levers of power for the next two months. And what do you imagine that they're going to do during that period. Oh yeah. Yeah. I've said, um, that it's really going to be, uh, we've got a perfect storm that's coming, uh, because, uh, the Mississippi

is way down. It's basically turned that multi-lane highway into just a two lane road as if it was under construction because of the drop in the level. And then you got a rail strike, which, uh, Biden went to the union leaders and bought them off or whatever he had to do, really upset the rank and file union members to postpone that until after the election. He has been emptying out the strategic petroleum reserve at an unprecedented rate. I mean, it's only been about three times they pulled the stuff out. He's done it more than 10 times what the previous high was. And so, you know, all of that is going to stop. So, you know, the artificial deflation, temporary deflation of oil and gas prices are going

to go away. You're going to have problems with rail. You're going to have problems with shipping with the Mississippi and that type of thing. We've already got massive shortfalls of diesel on the East Coast and everything. All this stuff is going to be coming together all at once in that period of time before the Republicans even take office in January. Yeah, something like 26, I think, or even 30 million barrels of diesel shy. And there's no conceivable way to bring that up to speed between now and, say, Thanksgiving.

So I think the plan is to pin the tail on the Republican donkey, at the very least. If they do get washed out by a red tsunami, then all of these things that have been set in motion by them will result in a catastrophe that they can then claim, oh, look, you didn't vote for us, and this is what you get. Exactly. As a matter of fact, you got an article that you just put up, the next two months.

Talk about that and the parallels that you see going back to the 1860 election, just before the Civil War. Well, yeah, we're in this very dangerous historical moment, I think, that's very comparable in a lot of ways to what happened in 1860 when Abraham Lincoln was elected. And the people in the South realized that they no longer had representation, and they had no longer any means of redressing their grievances within the system because simply the north's population and monetary influence was so overwhelming that they knew that going forward within the system they stood no chance whatsoever of their interests being acknowledged uh you know let alone deferred to so they decided to withdraw from what styled the union and now you know one of the things that i find fascinating about that is it's exactly what the American colonies did.

They withdrew from the Union with Great Britain. We celebrate that, or most people do, on the 4th of July, but somehow when the South did it, it was somehow a criminal act. It's really quite an example of cognitive dissonance. Yeah, our country was founded on secession. Yeah, right. And we see that over and over again. You see that when everybody freaked out in 2014 when you had the engineered coup in Ukraine and Crimea said, you know, we've been with Russia

for several hundred years, so we want to stay with them. They said, you can't do that. Ukraine can secede from Russia, but Crimea can't secede from Ukraine. I said, well, you take a look at the Civil War. You have West Virginia. After Virginia seceded, West Virginia said, no, we want to stay.

It was exactly the same situation. The hypocrisy is just astounding, isn't it? It's absolutely astounding. And so we enter this very precarious moment in time where people are faced with the realization that the system no longer not only doesn't represent them, but it doesn't have the possibility of representing them any further. If the left does manage to win, if they jigger the election, what are we supposed to do? How do we work within the system?

Our choice becomes simply submit and obey and do what they tell us or figure out a way to withdraw. So that's the parallel between today and 1860. I agree. And I've talked about this many times to the audience. You know, you talked about the American Revolution, talked about the Civil War. Both of those were fourth turnings, if you're familiar with Strauss and Howe, people coined the term millennial, right? And so when you look at that, it was kind of interesting to me that when I realized that Italy had a civil war

at exactly the same time as our civil war. It was not about slavery. Slavery was a component of it because it was involved in the agrarian society and the decentralized society being changed into a nation state that was based on the Industrial Revolution. But what was happening everywhere was the creation of nation states from decentralized agrarian powers. And it was being done as part of the Industrial Revolution.

And I think underscoring that, Eric, is if you go back and you look at the early 1830s, they had what was called the nullification crisis at that time. And it almost kicked off a civil war. But the people's attitudes weren't set up for that at that point in time. So they backed it down. You had a massive increase in tariffs that the South didn't want. They wanted open trade because they were exporting. But the protectionist... At LiveScoreBet, we love Cheltenham just as much as we love football.

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back. But it happened again 30 years later because the people were primed for it by that time they had lost all interest and and hope in and belief in the institutions and i just had this last week a guy who's a libertarian running in indiana jeff maher uh he's running for secretary state and and he was very articulate uh very bright understood exactly what the situation was, and he said, look, we've got to restore some transparency and trust in the system. We're going to have something like the Civil War. And that really is a hallmark of these fourth turnings. Everybody's lost any faith in the institutions,

and the institutions themselves are not worthy of having any faith in them. Yeah, well, Jefferson, I think, used the phrase, the long train of abuses, to characterize the exasperation that people felt by the 1770s. You know, it wasn't as if the revolution occurred in 1775 or 76. It had taken about 20 years for it to coalesce with people's frustrations, and they tried everything they could, as we're trying today, because nobody wants violence. Nobody wants any of this this because it's bad news for everybody. But a point comes when what's the alternative? You keep getting pushed and pushed and pushed, and there's no longer anything that you can do about it.

And that's the danger. And to get to your point about legitimacy, you know, for people of goodwill on both sides of the aisle, wouldn't you want to have transparency? Wouldn't you want to have an open way of counting actual votes and verifying the people who voted for them so that we all know, look, the result was honest. I think most people would be willing to accept that if they knew, look, yeah, this guy won. It's legitimate. It's equitable. So that's fine. But right now, nobody trusts what's going on and with good reason. That's right. And so what you have with thehington post and npr and politico and all they say well you know look at this that this is an

existential issue for dominion and for ess and es and es and s and all these rest of these companies it's like well their job their first job ought to be you know their first priority ought to be let's create a system that just that isn't just about counting votes anybody can count votes yeah let's create a system that is uh capable of being audited let's have a system that has transparency and that type of thing that's what we ought to be paying for if we're going to charge they're going to charge us tens of millions of dollars for these things that's their responsibility that's their job number one is to show us so that we can believe in the count that you give us. If you're going to hide that stuff and if you're going to sue anybody that complains about your corrupt system that you are trying to hide all this stuff from people, if you're going to sue, your response is going to be to sue people for billions of dollars for talking about that.

Your job, you had one job, and that was to show people that your account could be trusted. And they refused to do that, and nobody wants to hold them to that standard. Right. And, you know, the DMV does a fairly good job of establishing people's identity, doesn't it? Yeah. I mean, the DMV is incompetent at practically everything, but it seems able to do that. And so if the DMV can do it, why can't the election system do it? Oh, yeah.

I talk about this every time we have an election. Going back to 2012 in North Carolina, you are banned. You know, they've got this federal, you know, as the judiciary say, well, you can't ask for ID for voting because that goes back to Jim Crow and it's racist and all this other kind of stuff. Right. And they can they allow voter ID in other states, but it can't be done in the South. And so in North Carolina, we had one of the longest voting periods of time, no voter ID. And so in 2012, a friend of my brother-in-law's went in to vote and he gave him his name and his address and they'd look him up in their printout and they said, well, you've already voted. And so has this other person at your address. And he goes, well,

that's my mom. She's been dead for years. You know, that's what you wind up with in this kind of a situation. And it's very easily remedied. It's not racist. If you ask for ID, they have to show ID to do everything. They have to, especially to the government. Now, this is the government that say, you got to show me your vaccine record before I let you do anything. Oh, but don't show me anything when you go to vote. I don't want to know. Isn't it incredibly condescending, even racist to suggest that black people somehow are walking

around there in the millions without IDs that they're too benighted to go to a DMV and get a driver's license, or even just the equivalent, the DMV issues IDs. How do you even function in this society? Get a job, go to the bank without an ID. It's impossible. So it's really insulting for them to claim that people don't have IDs and that if they're required to present them, that somehow that is racist. I agree. I agree.

Well, you mentioned Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. Of course, one of the things he said was they have harassed our people and eaten out their substance with swarms of officers. And here we have the Biden administration talking about increasing the IRS by a factor of seven. He wants the IRS to be seven times bigger than it is now, drowning them with cash, hiring 80,000 officers, a swarm of them, as a matter of fact, to harass our people and eat out their substance. What do you think Jefferson would say about that? But more importantly, what do you think the Republicans are going to do, if anything, about that? jefferson would be speechless and of course i don't think even

of man is literate uh... and as articulate as he would be able to deal with it for a couple of minutes you'd have to probably catch his breath uh... but as far as the republicans you know ordinarily i would expect them to sit back and do what they always do which is essentially nothing or to do fifty percent of what's already been done and consider that a win. But I think this time that's not going to fly.

I think if there is the red tsunami and these people are voted in by an angry, desperate, and terrified population, and they do nothing, they are going to go the way of the Whig Party, and it's going to be a catastrophe for them. I think people aren't going to tolerate just talk anymore. Yeah, I hope they do something about it. My concern is, you know, some of them have talked about this explosion. At LiveScoreBet, we love Cheltenham

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Of the IRS and these agents and that type of thing. But, you know, Eric, none of them have talked about Biden's full-on CBDC, central bank digital currency. And, you know, he started this back in March, and the thing gave every agency something to do, gave them six months to come back to him with a report about what they were tasked to do. And he broke things up and did four different groups.

He had some of the people, like the Treasury Department, redesign our financial system. Okay. And get back to me in six months, another group, how do you implement this in terms of the computer code? Another group, how do you enforce this law enforcement, you know, get out the rubber hose and beat people into this. And then the fourth one was how are we going to sell this to people as something that is green? It's going to replace the cryptocurrency, which is using too much energy. We're not going to have to do any proof of work, so we're not going to use any energy. We'll just say it's a fiat statement. So he's got these four different areas, and every agency and government was tasked with coming up with one of these

things. Now, the Republicans have not said one word about that. And my concern, Eric, is that that's ultimately what these 80,000 IRS agents and this gargantuan helicopter cash dump onto the agency is really about for the enforcement pushing people into the CBDC. What do you think about that? Well, it may well be. And if it is, I don't know that they'll even need them because everything will then be centralized and automated and electronicized so that every transaction that you make down to buying a can of pop in a machine will be duly noted. Yes. And automatically debited, too. And I think the way that they're going to reduce the carbon footprint is simply by limiting economic activity.

They've already talked about doing that. So if you're making a purchase, let's say, oh, you can't buy that SUV. It uses too much gas. And they'll prohibit you from doing that or they'll punish you for doing it. That's exactly the sort of regime that they have in mind here. I agree. Yeah, they're obviously not going to need them to assess income taxes to us or any of that other kind of stuff. They'll be able to control and prohibit anything that they don't agree with,

telling you where you can buy things, what you can buy, when you can buy, all that type of thing. But I do think they need the IRS to confiscate our wealth. They need them to take an inventory of everything that we've got so they can come around at any point in time and steal it from us or to come up with some ways that they can steal whatever we've got, whatever property we've got. And so I don't think it's going to just be like a revenue that they're going to be looking at.

It's not going to be income that they're looking at. It's going to be your possessions that they're going to be looking at. Oh, sure. And in particular, I think that they'll use those agents to go after the barter economy. Yes, exactly. Because that's what people will naturally do when they want to opt out of the system is deal with one another in that manner. And they'll use the IRS to curb stomp that. I absolutely agree.

That's what I think they're for. Let's talk about one area that I think that there might be some change, even though I'm not sure if it's really going to work or not. The Republicans are not focused on completely destroying all oil and coal and everything else. But they're also afraid to take on the green giant, if you will, right? And so we're here in the Valley of the Jolly Green Giant, and they don't want to push back against any of that stuff because they don't want to get stomped on. But at the same time, you know, they're, well, let's not move as quickly as the Democrats or Davos wants us to move. What do you think is going to happen with that?

I mean, if they can't put out a sense for the oil companies, for example, that, yes, you can build refineries and you'll be able to make a profit for it. That's why the CEO of Chevron said there'll never be another refinery built in the U.S. Will there be another refinery built in the U.S. if the GOP wins, you think? Well, maybe. You know, they may take a lesson from the past three years. You know, when some of us stood firm with regard to the face-diapering and then the vaccines and showed that resistance is not futile and that this whole thing is kind of a Potemkin facade and can be pushed back against and then toppled over, that's happened with

regard to the diapers and the vaccines to a very great extent. And I think the same can happen with regard to this whole climate change shibboleth, because it's being pushed by the same people for the same reasons, with the same sort of malignant distortions, lies, and hysteria. And if you simply rebut them with facts, you know, I rarely talk to people about this, and I ask them, do you know what the percentage of the Earth's atmosphere is that constitutes carbon dioxide? And of course, it's a 0.04% approximately fraction. So you're going to say, then the next follow-up question is, well, how does increasing or

decreasing that fraction of a percent by a fraction of a percent cause a catastrophic climate change? And then while they're rolling that around in their heads, I ask them, can you give me a specific example of how you have been negatively impacted by the climate crisis? And of course they never can. So, you know, by doing that sort of a thing, perhaps you can begin to spread some doubt and questions just as, hey, you know, why are you wearing that stupid mask over your face or under your chin? You know, why are you taking a vaccine that they now admit doesn't immunize you? You know, I mean, you can, why are you taking a vaccine that they now admit doesn't immunize you?

You know, I mean, you can challenge this stuff, and it just takes a little bit of guts to reject the gaslighting and the false moralizing that's coming from these people. Oh, I agree. I agree. And those are great questions to ask people. And, of course, now they're coming after, you know, carbon dioxide is such a small part, and, of course, it is necessary for plants, that small part that's there. And the only way you're going to get rid of all of it is to kill everybody and all the animals. But they want to get rid of nitrogen now as well. Nitrogen, which is a big percentage of the atmosphere.

I mean, it's just like going after flu, colds, respiratory illnesses. You know, we've got to stop all that stuff. And if we don't, it's going to be, I'm going to have to have a medical martial law because there's a flu strain out there somewhere. Yeah, well, the thing to understand is they're not going after nitrogen or carbon dioxide or any of that stuff. They're going after us. That's right.

That's right. That's right. It's just an excuse. It's not about the emissions. It's about what they can omit out of our lives. You got an article at epautos.com. Helps protect. Talk about that with the vaccine.

That's the way they're going to sell it next, right? You know, we're all familiar with those oily ads that you see on TV where they'll tell you, if you buy this pill, you could lose up to 50 pounds in three days. You know, that's the kind of advertising shysterism that you see on late night TV. And now it's being used to peddle these vaccines that aren't, you know, instead of claiming that they immunize, which they implied and even directly stated when they were first rolled out. Remember that?

If you take these vaccines, you can't get, and you won't spread the, you know, the horrible virus. They didn't imply that. They said that they, they said, Oh no, you, you're absolutely, you're not going to die. You can't spread it. You can't, they didn't imply that. They said that. They said, oh, no, you're not going to die. You can't spread it. You can't get it and all the rest of this stuff. Yeah, so now that that's been proven to be a flat-out lie,

they've shifted ground like they do. It's playing whack-a-mole with these people. Now it helps protect. Well, what does that mean? How much? How so? You know, it's just incredible to me that people continue to swallow this stuff up. And the effrontery of it, the way they keep pushing it.

And this commercial I looked at, it's a government commercial, a PSA for these vaccines that aren't, that I embedded with my article. And it's insipid. You know, the whole thing about, you know, like somebody sneezes, you've got to jump back from them. And, oh, we've got to have these things to help protect. It's nauseating. Yeah, it is. Look at the lunatics that are pushing this stuff. The Extinction Rebellion

and the Just Stop Oil People. This just happened in the Paris Motor Show. I was surprised, not by what these activist idiots did, but by the fact that there was a Paris motor show for how much longer we don't know. Exactly.

It isn't going to be helped by the fact that you've got these radical lunatics, these useful, youthful idiots coming in and covering cars with black paint and gluing their hands to the cars and stuff like that. I mean, it's absolutely lunatic what they're doing. The paintings as well. It seems to me like the strategy of this just-stop oil going in and trying to ruin classic paintings and epically failing as well. Because they don't realize that they've got protective glass on them as they're trying to, you know, rub their head with whatever they've anointed

themselves with on the painting. But, you know, the epic failure from these people. And they don't realize how, of all things, to attack these works of art, they're going to alienate the people that they're actually trying to reach out to on the left. Well, they have the mentality of little children. When a little child doesn't get its way, you take its toy away and tell it it's time for bed uh the child will sometimes stamp its feet scream and yell that's what they do in lieu of discussing and arguing uh and and presenting facts and logic i don't like it i'm not happy i'm stomping my feet and screaming to

make you do what i say that's right yeah and that's what some of the one wave of these guys, uh, it's a couple of weeks ago, went into a Porsche, uh, room and a showroom and, uh, glued themselves, their hands to the floor. And that was too funny. Yeah. Then they complained because the thermostat wasn't warm enough for them and they couldn't go to the bathroom. Yeah. They complained because Porsche did not provide them with a bucket for their needs

yeah well i said at the time i said uh if they get their way none of us will have a bucket to piss in you know because it's true they want to take everything from us it's unbelievable the infantilism of these people you know they they uh they take for granted i guess because they've never thought about it because they don't think they, the fact that they are in a warm house with a refrigerator that's full of food, and that they've never known a day of being hungry in their lives. And they just accept these things as givens, as mana, that just appear magically. And, you know, we'll always have these things. And we can have a clean earth, too.

You know, it's just, it's the kind of thing that you'd expect from a not particularly bright 8-year-old. Yeah, yeah, exactly. You got a review on the Toyota RAV4. Let's talk about that. Because, again, I like the fact that you don't do – last week I talked about in the U.K. They're getting rid of the – it's the small Ford. I can't even remember which one it was. The Focus.

I think it's the Focus. It was the most popular car ever sold in the UK. And they've gone through like eight or nine generations of it. And so they're killing it, right? And they had all of these pictures going back to the 60s and 70s and everything, you know, showing the design and how they had made a small car big on the inside and all this other kind of stuff.

And said, like, you need to put a lot of design into this thing because it's a mass market thing. But they're going to kill that now. And what is taking its place? Well, you know, just right below that is an article about Lotus's 90,000 pound. And that's British pounds, not its weight. But it probably goes to that. But the Lotus SUV. and that's British pounds, not its weight, but it probably goes to that. But a Lotus SUV.

And I said, what could be more unloaded than a giant SUV loaded with batteries? Yeah. Lotus that built its reputation on building extremely light, extremely simple, very engaging to drive vehicles. But what fascinates me most about what's happening right now is that there's this inversion of history. At the dawn of the automobile age, when the first cars were being made, they were being made by hand largely. And they were, for that reason, very expensive. And for that reason, they were primarily the indulgences of the extremely affluent.

Then Henry Ford came along and he simplified them and he made them more affordable. And so that practically anybody could afford a car once the Model T came onto the market. And that set the stage for the whole future, 100 years to come. Now, what's happening, and it's happening artificially, not as a result of any kind of market demand, cars are once again being transformed into very expensive indulgences of the extremely affluent, and everybody else is going to be taken out of their cars and put onto the bus or onto a bicycle or walk to where they need to go. Oh, yeah. At Travis's wedding a couple weeks ago,

I had a relative who wanted to engage me on electric cars and green mandates and all the rest of this stuff. He's perfectly capable of affording whatever expensive cars come out. And he said, yeah, that's just the way it is. The rich people are going to rule. That's just the way it is. And he says, in the beginning, everybody was opposed to the car. They didn't like it.

I said, no, they didn't. I said, there were some people who didn't like it. Obviously, that's always going to be the case. But I said, the car took off without the government forcing anybody to do it people were buying those early model cars and driving them over unpaved roads and through small streams and stuff i just one of the reasons why they had such big wheels and elevated carriage and everything they're traveling slowly and they were taking uh roads that had been used by horse trails and they didn't put in uh they didn't put in traffic lights and paved roads

and then punish people if they kept a horse. They didn't do any of that stuff. It grew naturally, and the government was slow to react. It wasn't taking the lead. It wasn't coercing anybody. That's not the case that we're seeing now. At LiveScoreBet, we love Cheltenham just as much as we love football. The excitement, the roar, and the chance to reward you.

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18plusgamblingcare.ie People loved the Model T because it liberated them. Yes. Prior to that, you pretty much had to stay where you were because of the limitations of time and distance. You had to live in the city, let's say, if that's where you worked. It was very difficult to live out in the country. You didn't have mobility.

The Model T gave the average American mobility, which gave him unprecedented freedom. And that is what's on the table right now. And that is why it has our entire life. We've watched these people, these urban planners, they hate the automobile. They think it is the worst thing ever. They think the best invention of mankind is the city. But, you know, as Jefferson said, cities are a threat to the health, the wealth, and the liberty of man. And that is always has been the case.

But they look at it and they say, well, we've got to stop this sprawl. We've got to stop the suburbs. We've got to ban the car. I've been hearing that my entire life, and I'm sick of it. But they're getting there they're doing it now by political mandates and people are sitting on the sidelines and wringing their hands and saying well what can we do i don't have any permission in the constitution to do that it's like they don't have any permission to do this in the constitution you've let them turn this whole

system upside down everything is prohibited to them unless expressly given to them they don't have any authority to ban our cars they don't have any authority to ban our cars. They don't have any authority to ban fuel. They don't have any authority to ban food and the rest of this stuff. That's right. And it's no wonder these urban planners hate the car because it gives the average person the means to get around their plans. Yes. Yes.

To escape their plans. The worst laid plans. People get out of the city for a reason. Nobody was forced to leave the city. People are forced to stay in the city. That's right, yeah. Well, I got off on that tangent because I wanted to talk about the juxtaposition of Ford abandoning automobiles that are affordable in mass market and the trend to these incredibly ridiculously expensive elitist automobiles.

But let's talk about the Toyota RAV4 because it's one of the things I like about your website. You talk about practical cars, and you do honest reviews of real practical cars. What do you think of the Toyota RAV4? Well, it's interesting because it's just another crossover. I have this lament all the time. Oh, my gosh, they sent me another crossover. They all look the same. We all complain about that, those of us who really love cars.

But they're not necessarily all the same. You just have to go beyond how they look. So in the case of this RAV4, one of the things that I really like about it is that it does not have one of these inappropriately small engines that has to have a turbo to make up for the fact that it does not have one of these inappropriately small engines that have to have a turbo to make up for the fact that it's so small. It has a naturally aspirated 2.5 liter engine that makes adequate power and makes it very reliably and probably will make it for 200,000 plus miles, does not have one of these CVT

transmissions, which a lot of people who are listening will be familiar with, that are very common now for the same reason that the really small engines are very common. It's all because of compliance and appeasing the federal apparat. So it's got a very simple and reliable drivetrain, which is a value proposition for people who don't want to have to replace their car or an expensive component of it during the first 10 years of ownership. The other thing about it that's kind of neat, I think, is that it has some additional capability that you generally won't find in that class. Toyota offers a TRD version of it that has a raised suspension, has additional tow rating, 3,500 pounds, which is good for a little crossover.

So, you know, the thing is very practical as well as being kind of fun at the same time, and it's a great value proposition. So, you know, I'm not surprised that it sells well. And it's certainly a whole lot better as an alternative to a $50,000 Tesla. Well, that's cool. Yeah, it is interesting, too, to see some of the first electric pickup trucks come out. And I think we talked about this before, you know, the guy hooked up uh the electric truck and the range just went straight down because they don't have any um i think it really is because they don't have any different gearing with that well it's load you know the bottom line

is you know in order to do work you have to expend a certain amount of energy whether it's you and me going for a run or a vehicle doing something like pulling a trailer. And the word is getting out, you know, because I know a couple of guys who've done YouTube videos about the, you know, for example, the Lightning Ford's electric version of the F-150 truck. And one of them that was just spectacularly revelatory was when the guy hooked up a relatively small trailer, 6,000 pounds, which for a half-ton truck is nothing. And it killed the range of the thing. It plummeted to less than 100 hundred miles if you can imagine that well it's it's ludicrous you can imagine what would happen to this thing if you put a ten thousand pound trailer on the back of it

and try to drive it somewhere oh exactly yeah that's why you know we look at the oh we're going to have electric semi-trailers i think not for a long time. It's just the energy issue with it. But the thing that I'm really concerned about is the self-driving aspect of all this. Do you think that we've hit peak hype on all this self-driving stuff? A couple of weeks ago, you had Amazon as well as, who was it? I think it was maybe UPS or somebody like pull back. Maybe it's Federal Express, pulled back and said, whoa, we're going to suspend our programs.

They all did it. There were like three of them that did it in one week. Pulled back on their last mile delivery by autonomous moving things. Yeah, well, that's because the narrative is coming unglued. The wheels are falling off, as it has been with so many of these other things. The beautiful thing about reality and truth is that they do win out in the end.

So we've been hearing the hype and the assertions about all of these things, whether it's masks, vaccines, climate change, autonomous driving, electric cars, for years. And it's been mostly speculative and hypothetical. So people hear these speculations and hypotheticals. Oh, it sounds good to me. Okay, fine. I'm okay with that. But now the reality of it is staring them in the face.

Literally, it's a tangible fact. And it's very, very hard to not deal with it. And I think that's what's happening. People are becoming aware that they've been sold a bill of goods about everything. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. I agree. Let's talk about something for fun here.

I don't know if you saw this or not. And of course you're on the phone, so you can't see this clip, but are you familiar with iRacing where they get some NASCAR drivers in and they, they compete against each other in a video game type of format. Are you familiar with that? Yeah, sure. Okay. So one of these guys, I don't know if you saw this or not. Uh, the guy, let me get the guy's name here.

Um, Ross Chastain. Did you see what he did with the wall ride? I did not. Okay. So this is kind of interesting because it kind of goes back to, it's a real inventive idea. I'm reminded of, was it Junior Johnson or what? You know, one of the old NASCAR guys who used to be a moonshine runner and stuff. And he kind of pioneered the idea of drafting, right?

You know, getting up behind somebody and using, staying in kind of their shadow. Yeah, slipstream, exactly. And not having, and then at the last minute, pulling out from underneath them. Well, what this guy did, and he learned it from iRacing, and he actually got banned from iRacing for doing it. It's a thing called the wall ride. And I would not have thought that it would work, but he

just went full on. He went up against the wall. Let me show it. It's a little 10-second clip here, and I'll show people what it looked like. Here we have a race, and he's right up there scraping alongside the wall, and look at how fast he is pulling past everybody. He just left everybody in the dust he was going like i'll play it real quickly again he's going like twice as fast as everybody else

it looks like they're standing still and so i wonder out in the real world whether there's some aerodynamic advantage doing something like that i don't know exactly how the thing worked but i thought it was really interesting it was something that he had done on a video game and it worked on a video game and he got banned, you know, on the iRacing thing and he got banned for doing it on the video game. And then he thought, well,

let me try this in real life. And he kept him from, uh, you know, he was way back and he got pulled up. So he was not eliminated. I think it was a qualifying round or something like that. He said, I played a lot of NASCAR 2005 on the GameCube when I was growing up.

But he said it was when he did it in iRacing. One guy uploaded a clip of himself trying to pull off a wall ride in NASCAR, only for his car to clip into a random bit of geometry and got sent spinning but this guy was able to pull it off I thought that was really amusing yeah that's amusing and it sure beats two guys and a sheep do you know what I'm talking about there no I don't know what that reference is what is that okay well I you might you probably missed it I I wrote an article a little while ago about a Volkswagen commercial that's hardly about the car at all. It shows two gay guys, and they pick up a sheep, and then it shows them living with the sheep

and walking together on the beach with the sheep. What? Yeah. I'll send it to you. Yeah, it's the most incredible thing ever because they're apparently more interested in selling virtue than they are in selling Volkswagens. So are we going to have to add another letter to the LGBTQ, a B for bestiality or something?

Yeah, and then there's the other video. This is the Piesto Resistance, and if you haven't seen it, everybody listening should go see this. Ted Nugent, love this guy. I think he was being interviewed by PBS or something like that, and he was asked about his vaccine hesitancy and what he wants to tell people and he said his language was perfect he said something like i speak their language i speak to them rustly and then he went i did see that i did see that that's gone viral uh yeah that's perfect perfect response the guy doesn't know what to say about that uh yeah that is my day yeah that is

what is happening sometimes you just have to say that um you know i we look at this and that's the thing that bothers me with all this is as you and i have talked about it for the longest time how many people are still afraid and how many p and and the way the media is still hyping stuff saying oh look in la we got a 25 increase in the number of people who have tested positive of covid Can you believe that they're still trying to pull this stuff off and that it's being featured on the Drudge Report to try to panic people? They're doing the same thing with monkeypox. Oh, monkeypox is being transmitted even before people have any symptoms. All of the same stuff.

And the problem is that's the reason why I spotted this stuff so early on. They've been doing this with flu for years and years, for decades. And so it was all the same, the usual suspects. It was the same MO. But they're still doing it now. And it's amazing to me how many people are still being fooled and panicked by this. They've got a long list of variants. We've got the B.1.2.37 variant and all the rest of this stuff. And when

you look at what is happening in China, they want to do that here. It's amazing. Sure they do, of course, because that's the point. You know, it redounds to their power to keep everybody absolutely mortified and terrified. And as H.L. Mencken put it, you know, clamoring for safety, which of course they're obligingly prepared to give to them. It's a tragedy. It's a viciousness that I never thought that I would see happen in this country in my lifetime. And by the way, did you catch that piece in The Atlantic, which is one of the great organs of the left? Amnesty? Oh, just forgive and forget. Let's play patty cake and sing kumbaya.

It was just a misunderstanding. Yeah, yeah. Oh, I've been talking about that. Everybody's been talking about that on our side. Uh, really inflated. Yeah. They gave themselves amnesty, but I said, well, we got to make sure is that we don't get amnesia. We got to remember what it was about. That's exactly right. I mean, I'm prepared to forgive. Uh, I, uh, I will never forget. And I think that as a culture, as a people, we can never forget what was done, uh, and keep that in mind for, as a people, we can never forget what was done.

And keep that in mind for as long as we live. And pass that down to our kids so that they can pass it down to their grandkids so that this sort of thing never happens again. Well, I agree. At the very beginning of this, when you had all these pastors who were either ignorant, gaslighted, or bought off saying, well, you've got to get the vaccine. It's the way you love your neighbor and all the rest of this nonsense. I said, no, the way I love my neighbor is to tell them not to take an experimental DNA genetic code injection.

That's the way I love my neighbor. And so when a lot of people say, well, it's not Christian to not forgive these people. And it's like, well, you know, we understand as Christians that there are consequences for what you do. And, you know, God can forgive them, but the government does not bear the sword in vain. The government has to be about justice. And if the government won't mete out justice, and if the government won't protect our God-given liberties, which is what their number one and really only job is, if they won't do that,

then it's time for us to alter or abolish that government, and that's really what we need to be looking at. No question. Atonement must precede forgiveness. Without atonement, there cannot be forgiveness. That's right. Yeah, I've got a bunch of clips about the amnesty or amnesia. Let me just play one of them.

I know you can't see this. I'll narrate this. This is some clips that people are putting up saying you know remember when they did this here you got a bunch of people they've already spaced out and you've got the armored up police with their sticks making sure everybody is six feet apart they've got the things marked off there and pushing people apart with this stuff i mean we saw this and this one right here. Here you've got people being dragged by the hair in

Germany with a mob of cops. Look at that, kicking that. They got this guy by the hair. One of them is holding him. The other guy comes up and kicks him in the face with his knee. And they're saying, oh, really? Is this what we're supposed to forget now? I mean, we can't forget this police brutality that's been

happening. No, and how many people were not able to say goodbye to their elderly relatives who died in prisons for old people during all of this? Words fail me. Or even have a funeral. And one of the clips that I played last week when we were talking about this amnesty nonsense, it was a clip in the UK, and they had everybody, they eased up enough to let people go to a funeral for the father of the family. And the mother is sitting there grieving and her son moved his seat

from being six feet away from her, moved his seat over there. And the little thug running the funeral home comes up and breaks him and makes him move it back away. And it's like, you know, seriously, are we ever going to do this again? How could people have put up with this in the first place was beyond me. Yeah, I saw that. And just from my chair, I thought to myself, I would have lost control of it. I would have decked that guy. Yes, exactly. And it's amazing to me how quickly they were able to put this in place

and how long they were able to keep this thing going and how some people are still gaslighted and in fear about all of this stuff. And that's the thing that I'm concerned about. And again, when we look at the election, how few people have even mentioned any of this stuff. And if they did, it was only really in a tangential way. You look at the situation with Gretchen Whitmer, one of the worst witches of this whole thing. And in the back and forth of the very articulate candidate,

Tudor Dixon, she hammered her on the shutdown of the schools and some things like that, but not really. You put some businesses out of business and things like that, but it was really kind of a soft touch on all of that stuff. My take on it is keep the schools shut. I don't want to pay for these schools. Let's get rid of that whole educational model and replace it with something completely different. We've all seen that it doesn't work. That may just happen. It's one of

the unintended and positive side effects of all of this, that a lot of parents got to see what really goes on in the government schools when they saw what their kids were seeing on the computer. And, you know, now it has been elaborated even more because they're trying to force them, parents, to have their kids vaccinated with these drugs that are not vaccines. And a lot of parents are saying, you know, I'm not doing that. It's my child. I'm not going to put my child's health at risk. I'll figure something else out. I'll homeschool or I'll do something else. Anything but put my kid in one of those government schools. I agree. And one of the things I think is the funniest thing about this, Eric, we homeschooled all of our kids and people were saying, but what about socialization? Are you kidding me? Look at what the school just did

for the last two years. You want to talk about socialization? And I would say at that point in time, you know, when we were talking back then, I said, do you really think it's socialization to have the kids, you know, marching a line from one room to the other every hour and to sit there quietly and listen to somebody, you know, try to fill their minds with whatever they want to do? I said, that's not education. Education is not the filling of a bucket. Education is not downloading of information into your mind. Education is about lighting a fire. So people giving them the tools of learning

and lighting a fire. That's what education is about. It's not about any of that stuff. That's not socialization. That is really abnormal. But it got on steroids in terms of abnormality the last couple of years. And people have seen that. And they've seen what was being taught to their kids in the school through these Zoom classes. And so now, yeah, homeschooling has exploded. But we've got to watch out that we don't get trapped by taking the government coin and letting them then control it in a different way. No question. And just to get to that, to speak to that point that you raised about socialization, it's a fatuity. Homeschool people have friends, and they're able to go out and do activities. They're just not

under the thumb of a government school. That's right. That's right. Yeah. And one of the things that I've seen, you know, with homeschool kids, we've been around a lot of them, and it's a very different thing than when I was in school. You know, you had this, with this rigid age segregation that they called socialization. You were contemptuous of kids that were a year younger. You were in awe of kids that were a year older and adults. Oh, you don't even talk to them type of thing. That doesn't happen with homeschool kids. Some of them are gregarious and some of them are kind of withdrawn, but they're going to treat everybody the same way regardless of their age or whether or not they're an adult.

And to me, that's real socialization. Everybody's got to have different personality types, but that's real socialization. No question. And also, in my own experience, I know a number of homeschooled kids too. They are mature beyond their years. You can have adult conversations with 13-year-olds as opposed to talking to 25-year-olds who are products of government schools that are essentially illiterate and just speak and like and see and all of that stuff. And that's because the homeschool movement generally focuses on teaching critical thinking,

not on rote memorization and obedience to authority. That's right. That's right. Yeah, it's a very different approach. I just hope, again, I think it's always been a trap to try to get people to, you know, the way the government controls us is with the money. And if they can, they're trying to carve out little areas and say, oh, yeah, okay, well, we'll let you have some charter schools, but we're going to control the flow of

the money. We'll let you have homeschooling, but, you know, we'll have some of these programs and we can kind of draw you back in that way. And that truly, truly is a trap. We have to be careful about those strings because they come, it comes with the strings attached and they're going to start pulling those strings, no doubt about it. Absolutely. Yeah. You know, it's important to bear in mind that these people have an interest, and it's not our interests. That's right.

That's right. Yeah, it always has been about, you know, manipulating the next generation. It's always been about social engineering, everything that they do. But it's particularly a problem when they're able to, when they have a free hand with children. Let's talk about something else in transportation. Flying cars. It used to be a running joke.

People would say, wait a minute, you know, where's my flying car? You know, we were all told that the Jetsons, you know, by now I should have my flying car. Well, they're coming out with several of these things now, a lot of different designs, some of them kind of interesting uh when you look at them uh but um of course all of them are super super expensive just like the hyper sports cars uh they will be owned by the rarefied few and uh you know our our betters our masters will be able to go wherever they wish they will have the uh uh have the flying cars. It's not going to be the Jetsons, one of the ones that I saw.

I don't know if you've seen this one or not, but it was really bizarre. It had a body that air passed through, and you sat in the cockpit, which was really like a bubble and the thing would lift up like a hovercraft. And then the body would rotate 90 degrees and it would become a wing. And as it was rotating, you would stay upright and the car would rotate around you and then fly off. Now that's, uh, you know, they've got some really novel designs. But again, if you look at the future, they're not planning on any of us having any mobility at all, are they? No.

Well, when cash is no object, you can do things like that. And I'm all for it. I think like lightweights and home builds and stuff like that, all the way up to if you have the money and the means and you want to buy yourself a 707 like John Travolta did, hey, that's great. More power to you. But as you say, you know, for most people, that's a non-starter. With regard to flying, you know, it's inherently more expensive because, you know, you can't afford to have a breakdown because you can't just pull off to the side of the road.

And that's why aviation is so expensive. They're really rigid and, for good reason, maintenance requirements for anything that flies, especially in commercial airspace. And, you know, that alone is often more expensive to keep up with than the airplane itself. And that would be the same thing with a flying car. Yes, I agree. Yeah, it's going to be, and it'll be something that'll be, you know, they'll make the argument,

well, not everybody can do this. So we're going to have to just restrict this to the few people. And it's going to be the type of thing where, you know, just as Elon Musk just bought an $80 million new Gulfstream, his fourth plane, that'll be the kind of way that this is going to roll out. When in reality, one of the things that Elon Musk did understand when he started talking about boring, he understood that if we're going to have cities that are going to continue to grow and grow and grow and grow vertically, then our transportation network is going to have to grow vertically as well. So that's what he was doing with boring.

These people are going to do it with the flying cars, and then they're going to also allow, I think, Amazon and maybe another one or two companies to have a monopoly on drone delivery while we get grounded at home. I think that is clearly what they intend to do. That's what the videos they've been producing and talking about doing. Yeah, and all of the people, I think without exception, that are the pushers behind this always present themselves as the hail fellow, well-met, the man of the people, the advocate

for equality. Again, it's an example of the effrontery and met, the man of the people, the advocate for equality. Again, it's an example of the effrontery and the dissonance of these people. And you can basically, whatever they say, turn it around because it's exactly the opposite of that. And now they're all at COP 27 in an authoritarian country, Egypt, talking about how they're going to tighten the screws down on all of us. They all flew in there with their private jets. You got people like King Charles.

There was an amazing report that came out from somebody that worked for him. He's written a book. I don't know if you've seen it, Eric. Charles had a teddy bear with him until the age of 40. And he had his nanny. His nanny was the only one who was allowed to repair it, to do major surgery to it. The nanny that he'd had as a young child, he kept until he was old,

and maybe that's why he stopped, because maybe the nanny died, and he couldn't get her to repair it or anything. I almost feel bad for that guy if he weren't such a malevolent figure. On a human level, you can feel sad for a person like that, but then you step back from that and realize the contempt that that person has for us and that they're actively seeking to do horrible things to us.

Yeah, just like his dad. His dad saw humanity as a virus that needed to be eradicated. He wanted to come back as a virus so he could kill people. That's what he said. That's the way these guys are. It is amazing the contempt that they have for humanity and how neurotic they are from this sheltered world. Well, I think that's where it derives from. I'm no psychoanalyst, but I think probably a lot of these people inwardly realize how despicable they are,

and they project that onto the population at large, which they assume to be just like themselves. I agree. I agree. I agree. Well, it's great talking to you, Eric. As always, folks, if you want to know about liberty and mobility, if you're in the market for a practical car, you can't find any better review site than EP Autos. But of course, Eric has his finger on the pulse of what is happening with liberty and mobility. Nobody better in terms of those issues.

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