The David Knight Show - Interview: The War Tax Nobody Voted For

Episode Date: April 8, 2026

Eric Peters of ericpetersautos.com draws a straight line from the COVID MacGuffin to the Iran war MacGuffin — same playbook, same architects, zero accountability — while Fauci walks free and Trump hands out awards to the Warp Speed team on his last day in office. Peters breaks down what he calls the "war tax," calculating that Trump has raised costs on average Americans more than any president in 30 years, with diesel at $7.79 a gallon already percolating into food, housing, and manufacturing before the secondary and tertiary shockwaves have even hit.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 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-showOr 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.

Right. Joining us now is Eric Peters, and he's no stranger to this program. We always love talking to Eric because he focuses on things dear to my heart, and I think yours as well, liberty and mobility. And you can find Eric at Eric petersautos.com. Thank you for joining us, Eric. Oh, thank you for having me, Dave. And thank you for the wonderful introduction. I would only add sanity to your profile. Well, you do add sanity to our program. So it's always great to have you on, especially I like the fact that you've got, you've had since all this insanity began under Trump back in 2020, you started putting out the diaper report. And you've got a new one, which is the War Tax Report. And I think the titles that you chose with both those say it all, really, it is the diaper report. And you've got a picture on your website of, I think it's Japanese women or something who are modeling their underwear on the outside. and you always referred to it accurately as the face mask being the face diapers. And so that is still going on, that insanity.

We're at six years later. That's still going on. It is because it's not been cured. The article that I posted about this the other day was inspired by something that I saw at my bank. I was sitting in my car and another car pulled up next to me. And in it was a woman by herself wearing her mask. And you know, my... With windows rolled up, right?

She's not in a convertible. My attitude is shifting a little bit. You know, initially I used to feel irritated about these people. You know, why don't you, you know, take the thing off? You don't have to wear it anymore. But I've come to realize that they have been so hystericized, so PTSD by the nonstop barrage of propaganda, which they're continuing to receive probably from their doctors, of all people. Oh, yeah.

You know, they go into the doctor's office and the doctor's probably wearing one of the things. So, you know, or the nurses, you know, implying. that it's a sensible thing to do. So, you know, I regard them almost as NPCs, you know, that term, the non-playable character. You know, I think that they have been damaged so severely by the people responsible for COVID. And that's what irritates me the most, far more so than the sight of some poor old person walking around wearing the face diaper. It drives me baddie to think that Dr. Fauci is walking free. Yes.

All the people who are responsible for all the misery, and that includes Trump, got away with it. He gave a minimum award on the last day in office. He gave a voucher, all the people that did the warp speed operation on us. You know, they pulled a fast one on us. They didn't test anything. But of course, we all know that there wasn't any pandemic. We know that by now. You know, earlier this week, it came out that there is, you've got a lot of people who are looking at this thing and looking at the damage that's been done.

There's been studies coming. out of Europe talking about how there weren't any kids who died from COVID, but they're dying from heart disease from the vaccines. And at the same time, Pfizer-Moderna have had to cancel their rollout of a new COVID booster because they said they couldn't get anybody to sign up for the test. And it's like, yeah, you didn't have that problem back when Trump was present because they didn't test anything. It was fast because he skipped the testing, right? And now So there is a little bit of people who are waking up, but not enough. And, of course, there hasn't been any consequence for the people who pulled this over on us.

What is happening, as Jeffrey Tucker of Brownstone pointed out, he said, this is a cancellation by the market. And it really is a cancellation by the people. And for the most part, this ended, all this diaper madness ended because people gradually just stopped complying with it. Exactly right. But there has yet to be accountability. A long long time ago, when I worked at the Washington Times, I got to know Sam Francis. You're probably familiar with Sam Francis. He was sort of a paleo conservative writer.

And he came up with this idea that resonated with me at the time, and I still refer to it often. He called it a narco tyranny. And what he meant by that was that for the ordinary plebs, people like you and I and most of the people listening to this show, we'll feel the full force and effect of the law if we jaywalk. You know, if we get caught driving without a seatbelt, you know, we're experiencing. expected to obey every law and held fully accountable if we don't. Whereas at the other end of the spectrum, the so-called elites, the self-appointed elites, can commit the most egregious crimes. Fauci, for example. I mean, this is a man who destroyed the lives of millions of people.

That's right. Directly responsible for lots of death and permanent injury, nothing happens to these people. And I think that's why we're now at this point in America where the rage is building, you know, particularly among the Magaites, you know, the people who voted for Trump. And I was one of them. I was stupid enough. I got conned. I got rolled again. I voted for this guy. You know, and it's bad enough, you know, to have to deal with, you know, radical leftist people. But radical leftist people are going to do what they do. You know, you're not being betrayed by the radical left. They're pretty much upfront about what they're going to do to you. But it's absolutely infuriating to be stabbed in the back by your supposed ally and friend. And I think that's why

everybody, myself at any rate, are so upset about what's happening right now in the country. I said that back in 2020. I said, I would rather have somebody who is coming after me, coming after me, you know, with a uniform and a flag, you know, they got their rainbow flag. I know exactly what they're going to try to take away from me. Rather than have a traitor who's going to tell you he's behind you, he gets behind you and he stab you in the back. And I said, that's the way I see Trump.

I said, I would rather deal with a Democrat because then people realize who the Democrat, what his harm is, you know, how he's going to come after them. Why are the MAGA people surprised that these billionaire pedophiles are getting a free pass from the Trump administration when he gave a free pass to the people who were killing people back in 2020? You know, they saw that. They went ahead with it anyway. And now this is happening and they get angry. And I understand they should be angry. But why are they surprised that this is happening?

Of course, after Trump fires Pam Bondi, the first question for Todd Blanche is, well, what are you going to do in terms of the, Epstein documents and the people that committed these crimes. What are you talking about? I don't know what you're talking about. We said if there was anybody that had done anything wrong, we would be after them. And so he's back to this. I have no idea what you're talking about.

I said when I talked about it, I said it's very much like the Martin Short character they used to parody when he was. The lawyer on 60 minutes. But you know, I have a compassion for people because I think that ordinary people who aren't really, really disturbed mentally, have difficulty understanding the mindset of people who are very disturbed,

the psychopathic personality, because we sort of have an internal monitor check. We feel shame, guilt, remorse, empathy, these things, that cause us to shy away from icky, awful things. Like, I don't want to be part of that. And if I was part of it, it was inadvertent, or I didn't think about it, and I'm sorry, I wish I hadn't done that. So it's hard for us to imagine a person, you know, who just doesn't care, you know, who's capable of lying to your face in the most egregious manner and then doing the most awful things and not feeling bad about it at all. You're absolutely right. I've mentioned that many times. You go back to Ted Bundy, right, the serial killer and rapist out there. He's such a charming, good-looking guy and he's intelligent and all the rest of stuff, but he's just pure evil. And so normal people let their guard down. They can't imagine.

that there's anybody like Ted Bundy, right? And that's how he gets away with it. And that's how Trump gets away with it as well. We thought some of us, again, I've raised my hand, Mayaculpa. We thought, oh, Trump got rolled in 2020, you know, by the malevolent forces that came up with this COVID operation. You know, he was out of his step. He didn't know what he was doing.

You know, but he'll, you know, now he knows. Now, you know, now he's going to do the right thing. Well, he rolled us is what it turned. It turned out to be. That's right. Yeah. And as a matter of fact, when you look at what it's, happening, there is a perfect continuity to it.

Actually, you know, if you look at the bigger picture of, you know, where these people want to go, they know that we are in a period of time. And it's kind of a natural cycle that happens. And, you know, forth turning, you know, many times we talk about that. And so we're in this and we're at the very end where you typically have some massive economic issue. You have institutions are rewired and all the rest of stuff. Frequently, there's revolutions and wars.

So these people are aware of this. I mean, they use all the terminology of Strauss and Hale, talking about millennials and Gen Z and Gen X and all the rest of this stuff. But they won't talk about the fourth turning. But they're preparing and they're using the fourth turning. I think this is why we see all of the countries. I mean, it's really frightening to see what France and Germany are doing in terms of preparing for World War III. They want it badly and they are practicing mass evacuations. Of course, that's not being done here in America.

We never planned on doing any civil defense. There was a plan to save themselves and let the rest of us die. And that really is the same plan here. They're not going to do any bomb shelters. Trump is freaking out because he wants them to hurry up and build his bomb shelter ballroom that's there. And so that should warn us on this side as well as the massive buildup in terms of money that France and Germany are spending. And, of course, Germany going into debt for the first time since World War II. They're always afraid to do that.

But now everything is changing, and it looks like they're really trying to maneuver us into a third world war. It's going to be interesting to see how they roll their tanks when they don't have any gas. Yeah, that's right. I've read. Could I get some of that solid rocket fuel, I guess. You know, one of the aspects of this that it's not getting a lot of traction in the American news media is that in other parts of the world, you know, Australia apparently is just weeks away from having. No fuel.

And the situation in Europe is comparably dire. And, you know, Red Hats will say, well, we're here in America. We don't have to worry about that. And I point out, Doug McGregor has pointed this out as well, that in California, California imports most of its oil. Yeah. Where do they get their imported oil from? I've got a, you know, I've got family in Southern California.

My sister and her family lived there, and I was talking with my brother and all the other day. And they're currently paying about $6 a gallon for regular unleaded. I had somebody on the program told me they saw diesel at $7.79 a gallon, and that was last week. I was going to mention that. Lance just said, we're only two weeks away. Yeah. The old BB Netanyahu line, you know. A lot of people who aren't familiar with this issue don't understand that diesel is actually more relevant than the price of gas,

because everything that we get is moved by heavy trucks and by diesel electric locomotives and so on. And a lot of the things that are distributed throughout the United States enter the United States in California at the port of L.A. And then they have to transit over California to get to the rest of the United States. So these costs, you know, we're all worried about paying a dollar plus more per gallon, the war tax every time we fill up our vehicles. But very soon we're probably going to be paying the war tax at the supermarket as well. You know, you picked up that term. You know, the war tax report and the date in terms of updates of that. I see that now in the mainstream media.

They've caught on to what it is really. And it really is a value-added tax. It's like the VATs where they, at every stage of production, you get the tax. Yeah, and I did some rough math to, I think, put it in a sharper focus. The typical person who has a medium-sized crossover SUV with a 15-gallon gas tank, they are currently now having to spend close to $750 a year or more than last year. Wow. So that means that Trump has raised taxes on average Americans more than any president that I'm aware of in the past 30 years.

Well, he was bragging about that with the tariffs, you know, because the tariffs are taxed as well. Absolutely. And he was bragging. I've got all this money from, you know, the taxes. It's like, where are there any conservatives left? Did they realize that we don't want the money in the government's coffers? We want it at home? You know, we don't have any control over the federal budget.

and we're not going to have any money for our household budget either if he keeps taking it for himself. He sounds just like Bernie Sanders. Look, you know, they're looting the treasury. They're going to have a tax cut or whatever. Trump is so excited because he's been accumulating all this money in his treasury. Where did he get that money? Got it from us? It's even more egregious, though, because at least Bernie nominally is a socialist.

And, you know, he wants to help the average person. Trump is helping the billionaire class and, you know, the Wall Street class. Look, the down's over 50,000 in the immortal words of now. Attorney General Pam Bondi. You know, from their point of view, if you're among that class of people, then sure, the economy's doing gangbusters, but for the rest of us, not so much. That's right. Yeah, when you look at who this benefits, it's going to benefit the oil companies, just like,

you know, he benefited the pharmaceutical companies at our expense. He's going to benefit the oil companies. It's going to benefit the military industrial complex at our expense. But, you know, you go back to, you know, remember the 1973 OPEC oil embargo, right? I think you're younger than I am, but I'm sure that you remember that. And the knock on effects, the 55-mile-an-hour speed limit, all kinds of stuff. Now, instead of odd and even tags, they're talking about putting people on, you know, digital ID so they can fine-tune it to the individual as to when you can fill up and that type of thing. That's the insanity that we're looking at right now.

They're going to use it as a means of control. People hate daylight savings time. I do, too. but we had a year-round daylight savings time because of the OPEC oil embargo. And this is much, much bigger than that. For Trump to say this isn't going to affect us, just praise on the economic ignorance of his followers. I say that he's not about geopolitics. He's about ego politics.

He's about egotomics. And it really is true because he might be, he might be, I don't want to be, I don't want to be too derogatory. He's in this bubble. You know, he's a guy clearly who wants to be surrounded by sycophants. And I was talking with somebody about this the other day. I think that the analogy that suits, and it's not because, oh, the Nazis, but Hitler was notorious for wanting yes men in his circle and would not abide anybody who was a truth tell Hitler, hey, this military thing that you're contemplating doing, invading the Soviet Union, it's a really bad idea. You know, we haven't got the depth and logistics and so on to sustain this. It's not a doable thing.

You shouldn't do it because it's going to be a disaster. He'd fire that general. And he'd bring in a toadie, you know, who would say, yes, mine, furor, we will do it. And I think Trump's got people like that around him. Anybody who will, like, you know, Joe Kent, somebody like him would say, Mr. President, this isn't a good idea. Here's why you're a traitor. You're disloyal.

You're out. That's right. We all know that. Yeah. As a matter of fact, though it's a echo chamber. He's got people telling him he's the greatest most beautiful thing ever. And so he thinks he is. There was a clip where they had members of the cabinet or whatever and public, speaking in public.

And I think it was Stephen Miller who went first. And he does this flowery sycophant flattering speech to Trump about how great he is about this, how great he is about that. And then he finishes and Trump says, well, that's pretty good. Let's see if you can do better than that. And he pointed to another member. And I forget who that was. And they start out the same type of thing. This is the most disgusting thing I've ever seen.

This is why they're so dysfunctional, quite frankly. Yeah, he's, every day you think, okay, that's as far as they can go. They can't possibly go even farther. Now they're talking about putting his image, I think, on the $100 bill or something like that. Have you heard about that? It's a commemorative coin. Yeah, they've got a 24-carat gold coin, at least that they want to put his face on. And then for the money, I think that's what you're talking about, put his signature on there,

which president hasn't done in the past has not signed the bill, but he wants to put his signature on. I hope it's, I remember he had a signature on that birthday card in a very strategic place. Well, this is just a little bit vulgar. It's indicative of a guy who's kind of low class.

That's right. It's transgressed that now to the point of, it's pathological. There's something not right with him in the mind. Because, you know, And it may have something to do too with him perhaps beginning to show stages of advanced or beginning sinility. Because any normal person would, if they even had that impulse, would restrain that impulse in their mind. They would realize this is going to make me look like a maniac.

I'm not going to do that. I want to. I'm not going to do it. I think when he puts his signature on the bill, I think you're going to have some people make up some stamps. You know, back in the day, the people I knew in the Libertarian Party who had stamps. that you could stamp the dollar bill and it was George Washington. What it would do is put out a little dialogue bubble there and say, I grew hemp.

And so I can imagine people getting a stamp that matches up with Trump's signature and recreate that female hourglass shape that he used and stamp that over his signature. But the currency that's there just to remind people who he is. It's horrendous. And as much as we, you know, bandied about and find some humor in it, it's really quite, it's quite ominous the way things are going. Now, what are we not even a day away from the next obliteration to follow the previous obliteration? Yeah, I know. Yeah.

When you look at what happened over the holiday weekend, you know, he becomes this F-bombing terrorist, the vulgarity as well as the stupidity of this stuff. And I hate, you get to a situation where you got even people like Emmanuel Macron who sound rational compared to Trump. He says, maybe you don't talk every day because every day you say something in the next day, you say something that's exactly the opposite. You need to get serious is what he said. And I think he's serious. He's being made to look like a loser. And that for Trump is absolutely intolerable. Yeah.

And I think that he's not going to step, you know, step back and dial it down. I think he's going to increase it and ratchet things up. That's right. And the thing is the Iranians have shown they're fully capable of escalating in turn. So where does this lead us? Where do we go? That's right. I don't put it past as many to start lobbying nukes at Iran.

And then it's probably all over for all of us. Yeah. Well, he has guaranteed that they're going to have nuclear weapons because he has shown that if you don't have nuclear weapons, you are vulnerable to attack for the United States for any reason whatsoever, right? And that's the only way that you're going to be safe is if you've got nuclear weapons. So he's made it clear that they're going to get nuclear weapons now regardless. You know, we've been told by Netanyahu they're always just two weeks away, right? Well, they're going to get them now. And that's going to be on Trump and Netanyahu for doing that.

Can you blame them? No, I don't. Yeah. To the Iranians. You know, if you see a guy or you know a guy who's getting constantly beaten up by a bigger guy. Would you blame that guy for going to the gym and maybe learning some crab maghrapp? Yes, right. And you know, and going back and kicking the bully's butt in return, I wouldn't blame the guy for doing that. Or go back and get a pistol or something like that. That's really probably if we're going to talk about going to nuclear weapons, that would be the better analogy that the guy comes up and starts to hit him and he blows him away. That's the shame. And as they're looking at the people that are there, of course, if you wanted regime change, there was already a lot of dissent there in Iran.

He just shut all that down. Now the great Satan is America, not the Ayatollah. And he just underscored that with his message on the holiday weekends saying, you know, praise Allah. Well, if they didn't get the message before, they certainly got it with that, didn't they? And one of the things that sets me off, Eric, is I hate to see these people who talk about 47. I even saw this video that some guy put up on social media saying, this is prophetic. You realize that Trump is 47th president, right?

And they've been after us for 47 years. It all fits, you know. It's like, idiot. You don't even know when all the U.S. Iranian stuff began. It began 73 years ago. It began in 1953, way over through their elected government. And we put in a despot king and trained a root. ruthless secret police force, the Savak. I knew about that before the Iranians took over the U.S.

embassy because we had a lot of Iranian students that were going to USF, where I was, and taking engineering classes. And these guys were protesting the Sean. They were doing it with balaclavas over their faces. I said, what are you guys doing that for? So it is a tragedy that so many Americans know absolutely nothing about the outside world or the actions of the U.S. government, these are the rest of the world. And they have this cartoonish image of America as the great writer of wrongs against all these benighted third world people. And if we're out to take away our freedoms, it's absurd.

Where do they get that image? That's crafted for them by the CIA running through Fox News and the New York Post and mainstream media for the most part. So you end up with this juvenile solipsistic view of the world where you can't step out of your own shoes and look at it from somebody else's point of view. And you can't do that if you don't have. the facts, as you say, you know, most Americans are unaware of the fact that the CIA deposed the legitimate leader of Iran and imposed upon the Iranian people this, this awful person,

the Shah, who used to secret police to brutalize the people. And the backlash to that was the Islamic revolution. That's why there was an Islamic revolution. That's why we got the Ayatollah Khomeini, and that's why they did all the things that they did. And they don't trust us and they don't like us, or at least our government. And it's understandable why they don't. Well, it's amazing when you look at it. You know, our government basically created the Ayatollah as a blowback from what they were doing. And then when you look at all the different terrorist organizations, right, they start out with a Mujahideen that they're going to use against Russia and Afghanistan. And then that morphs into al-Qaeda, that morphs into ISIS and into Al-Nusra and so forth.

The next thing you know, at the tail end of it, we are supporting those guys in terms of overthrowing Assad in Syria. And so we put in one of the al-Qaeda, ISIS, al-Nusra guys to run Syria. And he goes on this killing campaign, killing Christians and al-Awhite minority and all the rest of that stuff. And so that's what the policy of the U.S. government has been to foment war, chaos, and disorder. And that's what's happening right now in Iran. They wanted regime change. Well, you got it. Mission accomplished, I guess, except you made the regime worse.

And it always does that with. civilian bombing campaigns. I think there's a silver lining to this otherwise very dark cloud, though, and it is that the people see. Not all of them, you know, there's still a cohort of the Red Hat crowd that doesn't see it. But by and large, most Americans, regardless of their political affiliations, do see it. This war is extremely unpopular. And, you know, Americans, you know, I talk to a lot of people.

I've got a lot of friends who've got draft age kids. They don't want their kids going over there to kill and be killed, potentially. over the city. They want nothing to do with it. You know, the whole rah-rah, yay America stuff that we saw back during the, you know, the War on Terror and Georgia v. Bush and all of that, that's not here now.

Yeah. At least not according to what I can tell. That's right. That's good. I tell you, it's like deja vu all over again, you know. Yeah. Like Vietnam and the unpopularity of Lyndon Johnson and everything, the convention is coming up.

And the oil embargo is like, I said, the only thing worse is if they bring back disco music, I don't know. Did you catch Karen Katowski's piece on Lou Rockwell today? No, I didn't see it. What was it? Well, she made the point, and I thought this was very observant, that the other salutary thing that's happened already is that we've seen that this colossus, this, you know, defense industry and all of our fancy toys are essentially useless wastes of money. Yeah. You know, all of these advanced weapon systems that we're forced to pay for through our taxes are obsolete. They're garbage. They're junk. So why are we spending money in all this stuff when it obviously doesn't work? That's right.

And maybe it will be able to somehow dial back the so-called Defense Department as a result of this. Well, I don't know. They'll just have a new round of killing machines or whatever. But I've talked about it many times. It was something that actually Lance showed me the book. It was called Kill Decision. And it was by, what's the name of that guy, Lance? Daniel Suarez.

And that was about a decade or so ago, was it? maybe longer. And he kind of wargamed this whole thing out in terms of swarms of drones, being the thing that equalizes and takes out even like aircraft carrier groups and stuff. And so that's kind of where we are right now. And, you know, spoiler alert, if you don't want to hear the ending of the book, but the bottom line is it was a threat that was created by the military industrialized complex so they could obsolete all these expensive weapon systems and saw a complete new line, you know, a version 2.0. But that's what we're seeing right now.

When you look at the way this war is being conducted, the only people who are doing it right are the Iranians. There was a guy, if I remember his name correctly, is Robert Pape, I think. And he wrote, he did a study after Vietnam War saying, you know, why is it that we lost, you know, we look at how many bombs were dropped in Vietnam. We still wound up losing that.

You know, that is the metric that we keep hearing from War Pete's Pentagon all the time. Well, look at how many bombs we dropped. We've got to be winning, you know, with all this kind of stuff. And I think it was. was General McGregor, or Colonel McGregor, who said, yeah, that's the same kind of nonsense we heard in Vietnam, and it didn't work then. It's not working now. So this guy looked at it, and he said, when I went back and I looked at the Korean War, it was even worse. And he said, and yet we lost that one as well. So I thought, you know, what is it about these air campaigns that are not working? He wound up writing a book called bombing to win. And his point was, if you go in with these massive bomb strategies to just turn everything to dust, He said, that doesn't work. He said, what does work is to go tactically after the enemy's warfighting equipment, right, which is what we see Iran doing.

You know, they're strategically going in and attacking central radar points and so forth like that to take away the enemy's ability to conduct the war, and that demoralizes people. It doesn't demoralize them to bomb the civilian population. As a matter of fact, it strengthens morale to push back against that injustice. And the Pentagon just hasn't gotten that message. Yeah, these are not benighted Bedouins. Iran is a huge country and it's a very mountainous country. And very clearly, they have been preparing for this eventuality for quite some time.

Apparently, they have got these underground cities where they've got all these drones and missiles and stuff that are essentially immune to any attack from the air. That's right. So what do we do? And now Trump apparently is going to send in thousands of Marines to capture Carg Island, which will be. probably result in thousands of American casualties. Yeah. And then what? You know, after another embarrassing humiliation, not to mention the body count,

what's he going to do? He's going to escalate, you know, and in his fury and demented rage, maybe he's going to launch a nuke, or maybe he'll allow or egg on the Israelis to do it. And then what? Well, that is the plan, though. You know, I mean, the Israelis want to do to Iran what they did to Gaza. Their strategy to get the what they call Greater Israel, which is everything from the Nile to the Euphrates,

their strategy is to completely annihilate everybody else and then move in and take over the corpse, the land that's left behind. That's what they're doing in Gaza. That's what they want to do to Iran. And that's what they want to do to all the Gulf states. And they know that if they continue egging on the U.S. And if Trump's ego lands and does that,

then the Iranians are going to respond by attacking other Gulf states. And so they will decimate the other Gulf states as well and do the work for them. I think that is the long plan. I think it's a big real estate deal for Kushner. They perhaps have not thought through is that they are bankrupting the sympathy account. Yeah. You know, by large people are turning against the state of Israel. And they're no longer equating criticism of what the state of Israel does with anti-Jewish hostility.

You know, people are making that distinction. And thank God for that. Yeah. You know, it's not, you know, you're not, they can throw out the whole anti-Semite. think, well, I don't hate people who happen to be Jewish. I do hate Zionism. I do hate B.B. Netanyahu. He's an evil man. I think that he should be arrested and put in prison for the rest of his life, if not something else. And there's a lot of Jews that agree with you as well. Yeah. And there's a lot of people in Israel that say the same thing, you know. I mean, we go back and we look at what Netanyahu

did during COVID. He offered his people up as a sacrifice to Pfizer so they could get the front the list. If they get the front of the list and they get people not only vaccinated now, they can travel and so forth and so on. And he offered them, he said, you don't have any data. Use my people for that, right? I mean, he's got absolutely no concern for his own people just like Trump doesn't. Yep. And people see it now. Yeah. They've had enough of it. Yeah. Well, you know, you're talking about the vortex. You're talking about not only what it costs you to fill up the tank, but of course, how this is going to percolate out into all these other different aspects from food to, you name it, you know, even plastic containers, right?

We can't get the petroleum products. But you also talked about how the rising costs of everything have basically shut out the upcoming generation from being able to get cars and homes and that type of thing, right? Yeah. Yeah, there was a very depressing and infuriating commercial I saw the other day that was put forth by Uber that was romanticizing what I consider to be dependency in perpetual childhood. It showed a young couple, you know, and instead of the guy going to pick up his date in a car, he gets out of the backseat of the Uber, you know, and the two of them get driven somewhere, just like you, you know, when you were in eighth grade, you know, your mom had drove to the junior prom. And they're presenting this as somehow, you know, this is, this is cool. This is what you should do. And, you know, it's just, it's, it is nothing less than a tragedy that that rising generation of kids finds that even something that we took for granted, you and I, when we were at that age, you know, having your first car, it might have been something of a jalopy, but you could afford it. It was yours. You know, and you were able to go out and pick your friends up or your girlfriend up and go and have some fun. And you were even at 16, a proto adult, you know, in a very real, real and meaningful.

way. Now, you know, these 18 and 19 and 20 year olds might as well be 12 year olds, you know, because they're just stuck. They're dependent on their parents to take them places or a bus or train. And, you know, they stay at home until they're 30 because they can't afford to move out of the house. Some of them are still there at 40. You know, it's awful. No wonder they're angry and no wonder, and this is what I dread that, you know, we're going to end up with some sort of leftist backlash out of resentment and rage and fury at a system. And they're going to blame. ironically, they're going to blame capitalism for it, as if capitalists created this situation, which of course it did.

Yeah, it all gets back to the liberty and mobility stuff as well, you know, because, you know, used to be able to, that was the big thing that I'd look forward to. I mean, when I was a kid, I was looking forward first to getting a bike. That's going to give me some extended range here. Yeah. And then as you start to get older, it's like, well, let's see. I could get a motorcycle except mom's not going to let me do that. that would give me a lot of independence.

I had to wait until I got a car, but by the time I'm 16, you're out there and you're able to do things like that. Now they're looking, and of course, this latest, the Trump oil embargo, which is what I like to call it, instead of the OPEC, we got Trump. And so now the Trump oil embargo is going to be locking everybody down to work from home. You've got five countries now that have mandated that for their government employees, and some of them have gone a little bit further than that, as well as doing rationing. of filling up of gas and all the things that we lived through in the 1970s, all these evil things are coming back. But this work from home and don't travel, you know, stay locked at home. This is going back to the same McGuffin that we've had.

They've tried this now. This is the third way that they've done this. They've done it by telling everybody, you can't have any energy because we're going to burn the planet down with CO2, right? Then they, that was the climate McGuffin. Then they did the COVID-McGuffin, saying, got to stay at home because we're, We're all going to die, you know, put on your mask and so forth.

Now we've got another McGuffin, which is, although it's a real problem this time, it is something that Trump created. Yep. And the thing is this time, they may not even have to do it overtly because it'll have been done economically. That's right. Right now, at current prices, if you've got a full-sized truck or SUV, it's going to cost you about $110 dollars to fill the tank up. Who can afford that? I know, yeah. You know, even if you're driving a smaller.

vehicle, it's still 60 bucks to fill up the tank. And that's just not sustainable. It's not supportable. And by the way, you know, an aspect of that hasn't been talked about much that I think is important, GM and Ford particularly, their profits depend almost entirely on the sale of big SUVs and trucks. What do you suppose is going to happen to the sale, the market when it costs $150 to fill up the tank of a pickup truck? They're going to be unsold. They're just going to sit there and it's going to cause General Motors and Ford to go bankrupt again. Yeah, it's crazy. I'm just telling you, we're celebrating our 54th anniversary of our first date.

And we're talking about how much it costs to fill up a tank of gas. I said, yeah, you know, back in the day, we would, you know, for $20, I could fill up the gas tank I could take Karen to the movies as well as dinner for two and still have some change left over. It's crazy. it's happened to our money. It's crazy the inflation that's there. And of course, these are real increases in terms of, it's what you talk about in your article, in terms of, you know, the price going up, the car is about six times more expensive than it was when you first got your car. Homes are about four plus times more expensive than when you got your first home. So this is the kind of degradation of our lifestyle that these people are, it's the way they get us to the point

where we own nothing. And they tell us that we're going to be happy with that. But I don't think people are going to be having it. I don't like the term inflation because I think it's dishonest. It's deeper than that. And I've got an example that I think makes the point very well. As you know, I've got my 76 Trans Am and I've had that car for more than 30 years. I was able to buy that car when I was a young guy still in my 20s. And I was able to drive it regularly because it only costs $20 to fill that thing up.

Now, I bought the car at a time when I also had a mortgage. I was able to buy my first house around the same time. I can barely afford to drive that same car today. You know, and I'm twice as old. And so it's the point is my ability to buy things has been diminished to that extent. And the only reason I'm still able to indulge the Trans Am is because I bought it 30 years ago. There's no way I could afford to buy a car like that today. And, you know, again, I can barely afford to drive it, notwithstanding that at this point in my life,

I should be more able to afford a car like that and more able to feed it. And I don't have a mortgage right now. Yeah. I mean, that's how bad it's gotten. Well, I think Trump is going to accelerate this and send us down the hill really fast because when you look at what he's doing and also Biden kicked this off in terms of destroying the petro dollar, you know, they're really pouring gasoline on that fire. And once they do that, and once we are exposed to the full liability of this $40 trillion

deficit, you know, Trump complains all the time about the trade deficit, but the one that really is an emergency is the budget deficit. He never talks about that. Neither it is the Republican Party. Only Thomas Massey talks about that. And so that's going to be the thing that's really going to affect all of our lives because that credit card bill is going to come due on Mr. Mrs. America real soon, I think. Absolutely. And I'm glad you brought up the point about the petro dollar, because that is the thing that really counts as far as what's going on over in the Middle East. The Iranians and all the these other countries are beginning to transact in other than dollars.

That's right. You know, the uraniums are now exporting more oil and getting more money for it. And they're going to get paid in other than dollars. That's right. And, you know, when that, when that whole thing comes to complete fruition, it will totally destroy the dollar and its power. And almost immediately overnight, we're going to find ourselves,

think inflation's bad now. It's devaluation. Whatever money we still have will be able to buy even less. That's right. And, you know, I guess at that point, you know, desperate people, once they have completely inserved, they've already inserved the working income people. Now they're going to insurf the middle income people. And then they're going to have achieved what they want, which is this society in which,

you know, two or three percent at the very top pretty much have everything and everybody else has nothing. That's what they're after. That's right. And that is the Trump class. We should call that the Trump Society, because that's it. You know, they live in their high-rise, guilty. sky scrapers and the rest of us just scrape by, you know, as we do it.

They're not even putting like a slight facade on it. You remember back during Carter era when Jimmy Carter at least had the decency to put a sweater on? Remember that? Yeah. And I'm trying to turn down the thermostat because I know it costs a lot to keep the heat on. Trump overtly says, I don't care. He literally says, I don't care what people are paying for gas or anything else. And of course he doesn't care.

Why should he? That's right. You know, it doesn't affect him. And part of the last. lie is that everything is going to somehow snap back to normal as soon as he's decided he's won the war. Well, it's not going to snap back to normal. We are still suffering from the insanity that inflicted on us six years ago with the COVID-McGuffin. Things are not going to come back right away. I mean, even if he had just messed up the supply lines like he did six years ago, but they

are destroying production capacity. You can get your shipping stuff going, but they're not going to have anything to ship once they blow up all the oil refineries. And these things, it's like a underbox over there. He's going to not, he's not going to be happy until he set the entire Middle East on fire because that's what the Israelis want. It seems that way. Yeah. And I think that is that realization is beginning to percolate. And, you know, Americans are asking the question, what's in it for me? Like, what is the benefit to me of all of this? And they're realizing, and there isn't. And there are a lot of liabilities. And people are tired of it. The question is, you know, what next? What do we do? Do we have any recourse? And I guess my biggest worry at this moment is that

Trump actually has game this all out. Because you think that purely from a cynical point of view, you know, he understands there's a midterm election, not that far away now. And then not only would that mean potentially, he's politically neutered, but, you know, if there's a big backlash and the House and the Senate end up in the hands of the Democrats, that he might face more than just an impeachment this time, that's right. Maybe he doesn't care because he knows there aren't going to be midterms. Maybe he's going to declare an emergency like he did back in 2020.

And he'll become Rzolensky and El Presente for life, or at least as long as his diabetes or whatever else is wrong with him doesn't catch up to him. Well, that would definitely kick off the revolution that I think both sides want if he cancels the elections. But, of course, he saw the clip of CPAC, didn't you? When the guy who's running the thing gets up in. Yeah. Yeah. How many of you want to see impeachment? Yay!

Impeachment! No, wrong answer. I thought for a moment that comes to a sense. You know, one of the most striking things about current events right now is that you've got this strange juxtaposition. You know, during the COVID years, people were pointing out how the people on the left were in a cult. They were wearing their masks and they were performing rituals, just like people in a cult. Now you've got people who are on the right who are criticizing those people and they're in a cult. That's right.

You know, they're cult leaders, Trump. And whatever Trump says, yeah, it's received truth from. Mount Sinai. It must be so. Yeah, that's right. It's either Trump derangement or Trump delusion. There's two different size of this. But I think it's kind of interesting. I've seen some people getting back to cars. I've seen some people say, well, now electric vehicles are going to have their day? And it's like, well, how are you going to be able to afford that? Number one, number two, are you going to be able to afford the electricity? We're going to see electricity skyrocket and price, not just fuel. That's coming down the pike. And, you know, it's when you look,

look at what Trump's focused on, and this really ought to scare people, this number one priority is artificial intelligence. And that's why I think, you know, the argument, I think, you know, when you look, is Trump evil or just stupid? I want to flip over to the evil side. I think he really is Dr. Evil, because that is the plan to dominate all of us. And that has been his focus from the very beginning of this administration, even more so than the crypto stuff.

And, of course, the crypto comes with controls as well. switches us over to a stable coin environment. That's basically a privatized CBDC. So these people can make their cut on it. But when you look at the AI stuff, it's very first day he's out there talking about how they're going to use AI to custom make genetic code injections for us with MRI.

And now there's talk about how, well, the AI data centers are going to have to have some anti-drone guns that are going to be driven by artificial intelligence. they're going to be able to find the targets and take them out. That was the same kind of defense system, by the way, that Israel had on their wall on October the 7th. And either it didn't work too well or somebody shut it down, but they're saying, we've got to protect the AI data centers. They're not going to protect our infrastructure. They're not going to protect our electricity.

They're going to protect the electricity of the brain that is going to be used to spy on us and to control us. That's what they're focused on. From the very beginning, when Trump had that Stargate thing. He said, well, you know, you guys are going to want to build your own data centers because, you know, our infrastructure is getting pretty old and it's unreliable and everything. And I said on that day, I said, you hear that?

He says the infrastructure is awful and he's not going to do anything to fix it. They're just going to let it crumble. And that's what he's now saying. He's, hey, we can't do anything with the welfare state or help people of Medicare or anything. We've got to, we got worse to fight. That's what we want to do. I had a bad feeling and I should have paid more attention to my bad feeling. When was it?

Within the first week after his inauguration, he had that press conference with Altman and Ellison and that other guy. I can't remember. Stargate, yeah. And that was a guy from the Japanese guy from SoftBank in Japan. And they do tell us. They do telegraph what their intentions are. And sometimes we just, I guess, don't want to see it.

And that was a case of I didn't want to see it. Okay, maybe, you know, whatever, it's not a big deal. It was a big deal. It's a Ted Bundy moment. It's priorities. Yeah. Those were priorities. And another thing about these data centers that's really aggravating to me, they're

they're popping up now in small town rural areas. And the local people are getting to pay higher property taxes and everything else as a result of us. You know, they're coming in an eminent domaining people's farms, land to put up these things because, oh, they're going to get more tax revenue from the data center. Yeah. That's right. And then it's this 24-7 noise and light show.

you know, that's going on. But the whole thing is being used. That is the, they've been saving data for decades, right? I remember when the NSA opened up that big data center out in Bluffdale, Utah. And it's like, why, you know, why are they, first of all, why are they putting it out in the desert where they need to have so much water as well as electricity? But, you know, building these big centers to save everything.

And I was talking to William Benny, who was the global technical head for the NSA for quite a while and became a whistleblower. But, you know, he said they're saving everything on everybody. They don't have the technology yet to go through all of it. Well, they do now, right? They're going to start using AI to audit everybody, you know, just like they used it to audit for the Doge system, right? And just as we've seen Trump use it to audit the real estate transactions of his enemies, they're going to use it for everything. It's harrowing. You know, Vysinski, who was the Soviet judge in Nuremberg, and also the guy who presided over the show trials earlier in the Soviet Union. is, as reported do have said, you know, show me the man and I'll show you the crime.

That's right. And that's essentially what this is. They'll dig through your records. They'll find something. You know, maybe you posted a mean tweet 10 years ago and now it's run afoul of the speech code. And they can dredge that up and go after you for it. That's right. It's truly a horrible thing.

If you can imagine living in a world where literally everything that you do is known to these malevolent authorities that are just looking for a pretext, some reason, something that they can nail you for. We're not talking about moral crimes. We're talking about these technical crimes, which are Legion now. It's kind of like you get pulled over for a seatbelt violation or some other nonsense that has nothing to do with any harm you've caused to anybody, but it's against the law. It's a violation.

Well, they're erecting scores of violations, and we all commit violations all the time. The thing is we've been able to get away with it because there hasn't been up until now this Panopticon where they know everything you do, the moment that you do it. well, soon that's going to be the scenario. And it makes me want to run in the woods and just live in there. That's what Harvey Silverglade said a while ago. He said three felonies a day. He said, all of us are committing three felonies a day. We just don't know it, right? Because the law has become

so complex and so pervasive on every particular topic. And so now they'll be able to go back and audit us. It's the same kind of thing they did with Martha Stewart, right? She didn't get convicted for insider trading. She got convicted because she said something that was, let's say marginally untrue to the FBI. And they caught her in a contradiction. And that's the hallmark of what these lawfare cases are about. They want to get people into a situation,

put them under oath, so they can find some discrepancy and come after them for that, you know, for committing perjury, which is the bigger crime. We see that happening over and over again. And of course, that's the key part about the income tax.

Sign this under threat of perjury. And so if you go back and find anything on your income tax that isn't quite right, They can come after you for that type of thing. It's a perfect process crime to be able to go back and audit people with artificial intelligence for their tax reports, tax returns. And they're also going to be able to leverage economics. You know, during COVID, I, of course, ignored the lockdown orders. And I go out.

And I specifically went downtown to go to the regional hospital, to have a look for myself using my own eyes, to see whether there were lines forming out in front and whether there were corpses stacking up outside. In other words, to prove to myself that it was. just not happening and that, you know, this was all hyped and exaggerated. Well, fast forward to now, you know, you're driving your connected car that emits telemetry about your movements where you are. So they know that you violated a lockdown and maybe they don't shut you down necessarily as far as your ability to drive, though they could do that, but they will shut down your ability to buy. That's right. Because everything will be digitized. So then you go to the store after you, you know, you commit your heretical act by driving somewhere where you're supposedly not allowed to go.

and you find that your digitized dollars don't work. You know, you've been precluded from buying anything as punishment for having transgress the other rule. That's where we're headed. That's right. That's absolutely right. They started doing that with the climate McGuffin, you know, saying, well, you know, you're going to destroy the planet if you have, if you travel too much or you have too much meat

to eat and that type of thing. So we've got to track all that stuff and keep an inventory of that. It is a total panoptagon of surveillance. And that's really what these data centers are about. It's one of the reasons why Trump is making sure that there's not going to be any state legislation to stop them. You know, they are adamant that they're going to control it solely from Washington. And to say that that is to say there's not going to be any control. It'll be just like it is with the pharmaceutical companies.

I played the clip of Woody Harrelson three years ago when he went on Saturday Night Live. And he said, they gave me this movie script. I went out into Central Park, sit down and start reading it. And he goes, so you won't believe this movie script. He says you get all the biggest drug cartels get together and form one group and they buy up all the media companies and everything. They force everybody to take their drug and keep forcing them, take it over and over again. I said, I set it down. I said, that's too unbelievable.

Nobody would believe that. Well, he had to do that on Saturday Night Live because if he did it on a recorded program, the network would shut him down because the network has been bought by the big pharmaceutical companies. That's why he did it on live TV. So, you know, that's really where we are right now. And these people are going to be watching everything that we do and shutting us down in real time. And Trump is fully on board with that. He's clearing the decks to make sure that the digital surveillance police state is right there. And I think that's a big part of what's going on with ICE.

It's not so much about the immigration thing as it is about creating a federalized police force that's going to be characterized by excessive force. And normalizing the size. You know, Americans are getting used to, just like, you know, people are now used to when they fly, having to deal with these government goons, rifling through their possessions and touching them. Yeah. You know, which is something that never would have been conceivable to America to have the memory to recall what this country was like before there was such a thing as the TSA. Nobody touched you. Nobody, you know, you had to be a criminal before an authority figure would lay hands on you. Now it's been routinized.

That's right. Well, now it's being routinized to see these body arm. you know, automatic weapon toting people. And not only that, that they can just grab people and throw them into the back of a van, take them somewhere. That's being normalized. Well, they wear the mask. There's your diaper report, right?

Exactly. The masked ice agents that are out there. And the other thing, too, talk about delusion. All the people when, you know, TSA wasn't getting paid because the government is so dysfunctional, they can't even pay their own goons. And then everybody's saying, we got to get them paid somehow because we got to be able travel instead of saying, yeah, let's get rid of the TSA. We don't need it. Instead of saying that, they say, how are we going to get these guys paid? This is horrible. I need my security police back.

You know, it's like, give me back my security blanket. Yeah, it's absolutely terrible. And I think Americans still are beginning to be aware of what's going on. So the question then becomes, what do we do? How do we fight this? Yeah. Yeah. And I think, you know, facing it is the first step. Being aware, being realistic with yourself about what we're up against is important. And maybe the next thing to do is just to withdraw your consent, as a lot of classical libertarians would say, just don't go along with it, at least in your head, reject it, and do everything you can to not be involved with it. I've never been more sure of anything in my life than the nonsense of the TSA.

And we look at the reactions of people. It's very much like your story there, your diaper report about the woman who's riding in the car by herself, the windows rolled up, and she's got to. a mask on, right? But that's the way the people are at the airport. I need my TSA security mask back on me, you know, because I'm not safe from terrorists otherwise. And, you know, there was, you remember right after they rolled out the naked body scanners and started doing pat-downs and everything, there was an organized boycott for the following Thanksgiving. And on the busiest travel day of the year, the TSA just shut it down, everything and said, go on through, because

everybody was going to opt out and force them to pat everybody down and was going to make a point, about showing resistance. So rather than letting people show their resistance to it, they just shut the whole system down. And subsequent to that, we found a lawsuit that was filed, and they, by mistake, put up the full lawsuit and without redactions,

then realized a mistake and later took that down and put up the one with redactions. But we got both of them and we compared them. And you could see that they were saying in 2011, 10 years after 9-11, that there was no threat to error. airports, airplanes. And of course, we know that because they fail 95% of the time. So if there was a threat, there would have been some more incidents, but it's just not happening. And so that's, that's

where we are right now. But let's talk a little bit about EVs, because you got an interesting story. 51 new cases is the title of your article at EP Autos. And you're talking about the Nissan Leaf. And tell us a little bit about that. Yeah, well, there's another incident, another series of cases of spontaneous combustion, this time involving new or nearly new Nissan lease, supposedly because of manufacturing defects. So there's been a recall because 51 of them have caught a fire. The thing is, though, it's much more than merely the manufacturing defect because EVs are inherently fire prone by the nature of high voltage lithium ion batteries, as we all know.

There have been EV fires involving, I think, pretty much every make and model of EV that's currently available because that's what you get with lithium ion batteries. And that's what you get with, you know, involving yourself with extremely high voltage, 400, 800-volt architecture and the charging process. And one of the things about this that I think is very interesting and just hasn't been discussed often enough is the fact that, you know, over time, even if everything's ideal and you've got this very well-constructed electric vehicle battery case, over time in a motor vehicle, you know, it's going to get jostled. It's going to get vibrated. You're going to hit potholes. you're going to have extremes of heat in the summertime. You're going to have extremes of cold in the wintertime.

And that degrades materials over time. Any engineer will tell you that. And it over time results in that system becoming less stable and more prone to developing a problem. And if you've ever looked inside an electric vehicle battery pack, it's a lattice. It's this gigantic lattice, very complex structure of all these little bits and pieces. And when they begin to deteriorate and fray,

then you get a short circuit out of one of the, individual cells or thousands of cells in that EV battery pack. All it takes is one of those things to develop a little hairline crack or fissure in it, boom. You know, you get this, this cascading thermal runaway event and a horrendous fire that happens almost immediately, not just a little fizzle, fire. It's certainly high burning, high, high temperature fire. And this is something that is inherently dangerous. You know, you look back at the Pinto, you and I can remember the Pinto. And, there was a big hullabaloo about the pinto, sometimes catching fire.

If it got rear-ended, you had to hit the thing from behind really hard to sever the fuel filler, Nick, which not only caused the gas to spill, but it created a spark because the metal went like that. You know, and there was a spark and boom, EVs just catch fire just sitting there. There was in a single case of a single pinto just catching fire just sitting there. Yeah. So, you know, even a pinto is inherently more safe than any EV because, you know, you need the the gas in the first place to spill, to leak, to have the vapors. And then you have to have the second compounding factor, the spark that will ignite.

Whereas with EVs, they just spontaneously combust. And there's nothing that you can do to prevent that from happening. And you pointed out in your article that there were only 38 cases of the Pinto, yet there's 51 cases of this one particular model that they got as part of the recall. And so you start with that. And then you point out the fact that, well, you know, why is it being recalled? Well, they think that during the manufacturing process, some of these batteries got bumped slightly. And that has caused something that could short circuit and cause it to spontaneous combust like that.

But I remember, first time I ever heard of an electric vehicle burning down a house was when I was living in North Carolina. And it was a home in Charlotte. And people were just charging it at their house. They had it in the garage and it spontaneously combusted and burnt the entire house down. But since then, you know, we've seen pictures. I remember seeing pictures of Nevy in a parking garage just explode, you know, because they had the monitoring cameras there. We've seen it happen with buses on the street.

And you've had situations where after it happened, the one video that I played, it was in France that it spontaneously combusted. The bus did burn very, very rapidly. And subsequent to that, you had a couple of situations like that with bus stations in Germany, two different locations. One was in Stuttgart, the other was in Munich, I think. And one of them caught fire, and it was so intense that it burned all of them down.

And so after that, some, you know, cities, some municipalities and Canada said, well, we're going to switch out our electric buses and go back to diesel. But it is inherent in the technology. And if you think about it, it's a lot more fragile than a Pinto. And that's the other issue. You know, if there's just during the manufacturing or the shipping of the component part, If a bump can cause a defect in the battery, what does a car accident cause? And we've heard cases after cases of a car accident.

And if you're unfortunately in a Tesla, those things are under software control in terms of opening the doors. So you get locked into the thing as it's spontaneously combusting. Yeah. And how about the two container ships that went down? They were transporting EVs. They were just transporting them. These were not plugged into anything. They were just sitting and they caught fire and took the whole ship out. This is a disaster.

And, you know, it's a disaster that has a ripple effect on people who have nothing to do and want nothing to do with EVs. You and I and everybody else are getting to pay more for car insurance and for home insurance because of the actual and potential costs incurred by these EVs and the fires. One of the cases that is particularly glaring was a case of this couple that lived in Maryland, I believe it was. and they took their vehicle into the Mercedes-Benz dealership for service, their vehicle, which was not an EV, I think. Anyway, the dealer gave them a Mercedes-EV loaner car, and they drove the thing home, and they parked it in their driveway outside of their garage, wasn't plugged in, and they just left it sitting there.

Well, the thing caught fire. Not only did it burn to the ground, it burned their house to the ground, and these were affluent people. They had a home that was worth about a million dollars. What do you think pays for that? We do. That's right. Yeah.

Yeah. Does that come under the car insurance or the homeowners insurance? I wonder which one of that is. But yeah, it is crazy. But, you know, it is something that people are still fanatical about. You point out a Jolopnik article where they were talking about bemoaning the fact that Rolls Royce is going to still sell their V12 engine. They couldn't believe that they weren't going to go completely EV. Talk a little bit about that. Yeah, that got under my skin because after all, I am a car journalist, which means it's used to me that you're somebody who not only likes cars, but understands them. Yeah.

And my profession now is suffused with people who have no understanding, no comprehension whatsoever of cars. And a lot of them work at Jolopnik. And they work at, yeah, not just that. Unfortunately, road and track and car driver too. Yeah. They don't, like, they're so blinkered, they don't see that a person who's in a position to buy something like a Rolls or a Bentley, you know, they want something. that isn't just another device. You're spending a quarter million dollars on a vehicle. You want

something that's exclusive. Well, I hate to break it to you, but a battery pack isn't exclusive. That's right. You know, a Hyundai has a battery pack. Not that there's anything wrong with a Hyundai. I'm just pointing out that it's a battery pack. There's nothing special about it. You know, nobody ooze and awes, ooh, my battery pack has 80 kilowatt hours, you know, versus that one over there. That one only has 63 kilowatt hours. It's ridiculous. Whereas V12, now that's got some Gravitos. That's got some heft. You know, I mean, if you're, you know, in traffic and you glance over that car next to you and it has the chrome letters and it says V12, you go, wow, that's impressive. And even more impressive when you look and you hear it. What do you hear with the battery pack? You hear

nothing. You know, you push the start button. It's like putting a turning on the light switch in your room. Okay, whatever. I mean, it turns on. Yeah. There's no passion. There's no feeling. There's nothing there. You know, it's a, it's a toaster. Nobody's going to pay a quarter million dollars for a toaster. It's kind of like a Rolex or a Swiss watch versus a digital watch, right? That's a really apt example. Why did Rolex not just switch over to cheap digital watches? You know, they can still down the outside building. The $10 watch that you buy at the dollar store probably is more accurate than the Rolex because, you know, the Rolex has mechanical movement in it rather than just a purely digital timepiece. But my God, you look at that magnificent

jeweled timepiece and that's what you're paying for. You know, you know, you know, intricacy, the ornateness of it, the craftsmanship of it. So, you know, these people don't get that. They don't understand. And why are they working in car journalism is absolutely beyond me. You know, when I was coming up, there was still the old guard present when I first started working in this business. And the old guard, they were car guys. Yeah. You know, and you could not get your foot in the door unless you were simpatico. You were like them. You were interesting cars. You knew something about them. You know, you worked on them. Maybe you raced them in the weekend, and stuff like that.

You know, they didn't want people who didn't like cars being in their business. Now it's the opposite. Was it David Davis or something, the guy at, he was like Cajito,

ergo zoom, but he was one of an organized cannonball run, kind of in a protest to the 55 mile hour speed limit, right? Yeah, yeah. I mean, you can imagine, you know, Brock Yates was another one of the instigators

behind that. Great guy. But today, you know, somebody like that would be viewed as some sort of horrible patriarchal heterosexual, you know, rolling coal maniac who can't be discussed in polite society. That's absolutely true. Well, you know, when we look at where this is all headed, it really is going down the drain.

Everything seems to be circling the drain. Talk about the difference between us and them. That's the headline of one of your articles. Yeah, you know, I was inspired to write that the other day because I got to thinking about COVID again and the times in which we're living. And one of the things that has always kind of angered and frustrated. me about COVID is that all the people who are the most hysterical enforcers of things like mass guidelines and who believe everybody should be forced to get the vaccine. Generally speaking,

they don't apologize. I don't concede they were wrong about that. And I think that's appalling. I think that as a human being, when you make a mistake, the only way you can recover your self-respect and your humanity is to admit, especially to those that you hurt, I made a mistake. I shouldn't have done that. Unless you're like Donald Trump and then you don't make mistakes, right? Well, so I'm admitting that I made a mistake in letting my hope cloud my judgment and having voted for Trump. I'm sorry for it. I shouldn't have done it. Not saying that I would have voted for Kamala Harris.

I'm not voting anymore for any of them. But the thing is, you know, I made a mistake. I thought maybe he's not the same guy that he was last time, but he was worse than I even imagined. And I'm sorry for it. And I think that, again, it's not about it transcends politics, ideology, religion. If you make a mistake, if you do something wrong, you got fooled, that's not, you know, that's not a moral failing if you got fooled. We all make mistakes. You know, we sometimes, you know, just get rolled.

Admit it, though, particularly when harm was caused as a result of it and you were involved in it, even if not overtly because you just thought you were doing the right thing. And I wish the people on our side, particularly people on our side, would not be like the COVIDians. And, you know, we just say, you know, yeah, this is bad news. we have to stop this somehow. I'm not going to be part of this business any longer. Yeah, yeah. Well, you know, it's always been, with Trump, the debate's always been whether he's a fool or a tool of somebody or something else.

And as we were talking before the interview, we're talking off air before the interview started. And I said, yeah. Question is, is he a psychopath or is he dementia? You know, we're talking about what he did over the weekend. And you came up with a third possibility. Tell the audience. Oh, tertiary syphilis.

which is quite possible. That's right, absolutely. That would be an interesting revenge, wasn't it, from the victim? I wouldn't be the least surprised. You know, and again, this is a general thing, too. Another ironical juxtaposition is that the people who support Trump now were very critical of Joe Biden a few years ago because he was obviously an elderly man who was at the point

where his faculties were obviously deteriorating physically as well as mentally. And they made a big brouhaha about a guy that old shouldn't be a guy, in that position. Well, here we are with a guy who's older. That's right. And he's going to be, you know, it's going to get progressively worse. You know, we still got almost three years to go. He'll be pushing 83 years old by the end of this. And I'm not, you know, like trying to make a big deal about people's age. I'm pointing out that there are jobs where, you know, maybe age is a factor. I think commercial airline pilots have to retire at 60, I think. And there's a good reason for that. Even if you're in excellent shape today as a 60 year old, it's statistically not improbable that you

might have a stroke or a heart attack tomorrow and you don't want that guy in the left seat of your plane, you know, if you can avoid it. You put a younger person in that role. And I think that, you know, one of the lessons that we're all going to learn from this is that maybe there should be an upper age limit on people who are permitted to run for president. Well, I think it's even more individualized than that. You know, when you look at the situation of this demonstrated condition that he showed everybody, frankly, I don't care. You know, it's like having somebody who is a mass murderer. Or maybe he says that the dogs were telling him to kill all these people like Son of Sam. Or maybe he's just been a lifelong psychopath.

Or maybe something else happened to him. I don't really care about his motivations as much as we need to do something about it. Right? You've got to get this guy off the street one way the other. Life in prison or the electric chair, whichever you've taught it. Well, that's the case with. Who's going to do it? Yeah, that's the case with Trump.

I mean, you know, the issue is we talk about is it just because he's a vicious, mad dog or is it because he's becoming senile? I don't really care. The bottom line is we've seen what he's doing and we know what he's doing to the entire world. And so the question is, how do we get this guy out of there? It's not what's wrong with him. We know what's wrong with him. What caused what's wrong with him is the only thing to be talked about. And I don't really care what the motivating factors were underneath that made him into what he is what everybody can see. is right now. So we'll see whether self-interest on the part of people within the Republican Party is operative. You know, I was, I was heartened by what Joe Kent did because, you know,

he was a guy's pretty unimpeachable in terms of his background, particularly on the topic at hand, the war. That's right. And very, very difficult for Trump, Captain Bonespurs to criticize this guy, you know, with multiple combat tours, how many bronze stars does he has, and all the, and he was immediately under Tulsi Gabbard. And so was in a position to know where the Iranians, were a threat to the United States. And clearly they weren't according to him. So who are you going to believe? I hope that his example is followed and emulated. And more people of good conscience come forward and say, I just can't be partied to this any longer. And perhaps a crescendo will build and perhaps a point will come kind of like it did with Nixon in 74 where he's got to go.

Yeah. And he'll take that he'll take that walk of shame to the helicopter and go back to Mar-a-Lago. I just, you know, there's something about Trump and the leverage that he's got over everybody, which is really crazy. And I got to say, you know, if the Republican Party needs to be taught a lesson. And unfortunately, there's not any good way to do that. You know, if you vote against them, you're voting for a Democrat for the most part. And they've got their own issues that are different. But the, you know, I, if I was still voting, I've given up on that. If I was still voting, I'd be hard-pressed to know what to do.

I look at it and I think, you know, if I was still going to vote, I would probably vote for a Democrat this time because just to teach the Republicans a lesson, but I know what I'd get on the back end of that. And I just, you know, for the longest time running as a third-party candidate would tell people, you know, the lesser two evils is still evil. I just don't want to vote for an evil. You know, they're evil in different ways. But somehow Trump has got to get taken out.

And the Republican Party needs to be, have a spying ground. grafted into it for some reason. They need to see that there's a price to be paid for this. And I think that the Republican Party is going to pay a price for this. I think Trump is worse for the Republican Party than Jimmy Carter was for the Democrat Party. That's my take on it. What do you think? Oh, I'll second and amen and third that. You know, Jimmy Carter, for all of his flaws, I don't think people perceived him as a loathsome person. That's right. As a vile individual, they regarded him, as I remember, it's just kind of inept that he meant to do well, but, you he wasn't particularly competent.

Whereas Trump, he is personally despised with reason by a large number of people who regard him as a despicable human being. That's right. You know, a person without compassion, without empathy, without decency. You know, and I do think that that's going to come back to bite him in his more than ample career. It is more than ample, isn't it? Well, on that note, we're running out of time. And we've gone a little bit over time, but thank you so much Eric Peters for joining us. And again, you can find him at Eric petersautos.com.

There's a lot that is there that is food for thought. And it's always an interesting read. And we didn't have time to get to your buildout for your Transam and your, I love the way that you're for, it's alive. And he said, bringing back something that has been dead like this for a while. It really does feel kind of like Dr. Frankenstein, bringing it back alive. And I bet it war- I'll have to talk about that the next time. Yeah, I bet it roared when it came back to life.

It must have been a lot of fun. Well, thank you so much for joining us. Again, Ericpetersaudos.com. Thank you, Eric. Always great to talk to you. Thank you, David. Thank you. The common man.

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